Word: maintain
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Such a foundation's most difficult and elusive task would be to wed public policy and private initiative, to maintain a link with the Government without be coming bogged down in bureaucracy or timidity. For in retrospect, perhaps the CIA's most important contribution was not money but unconventional and imaginative ideas, notwithstanding failures. If the new "mechanism" can steer between a too specific, outdated cold war orientation, on the one hand, and an aimless benevolence on the other, it has a truly exciting chance not merely to provide shelter for the orphans but to modify the entire...
...clear yesterday how boards of trustees at other Boston area hospitals would react to the Council's plan. No board is forced to follow the council's recommendations but Boston hospitals have an informal agreement to maintain reughly equal wage levels...
...Press was nearly annihilated during the war years, but financial windfalls and the struggles of supporters made Harvard decide to maintain and strengthen it. The Press now edits, designs and lays out, arranges for the printing of, promotes, and helps distribute all over the world more than 100 series of books, all of them good scholarly books...
Although they are badly outnumbered, defenders of the single-sex campus maintain that girls are more apt to display their intellectual talents when they are not also vying for dates in the classroom, that either sex concentrates more intently on classwork when they are separated, that the separate campus is more relaxed and casual in dress. Some also contend that a coed curriculum tends to overemphasize masculine vocational interests. After competing with men in a coed college, claims President Paul Weaver of Ohio's all-girl Lake Erie College, a girl is likely to become "dissatisfied in the role...
...wanted to maintain the Harvard snobbery, you could explain the "summies" performance by theorizing that during the summer Harvard-Radcliffe under-achieves, while the "summies" over-achieve. But you do not have to put it in those terms. The summer school students are impressed by Harvard, and by being at Harvard, and so take the school and themselves seriously. They study, they work hard (one Cliffie who shared a dormitory suite with three "summies" remembers that they were surprised by and even disapproving of her erratic study habits) and they do well--69 per cent of the grades last summer...