Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apparent serenity of China has often hidden the recurring tensions between central government and regions, between Emperor and officialdom or ambitious war lords-and, above all, the sometimes intolerable inner tensions of trying to maintain harmony. As China Scholar Etienne Balazs put it: "The smiling landscape is found to be a veil which, when torn asunder, reveals a craggy vista of precipices and extinct volcanoes, reminiscent of the visions with which most Chinese landscape painters were obsessed...
...appear before the executive committee and explain their absence in order to maintain their membership. All but one did. He resigned...
...Vietnam war is concerned, we (Japanese) are determined to maintain a relatively neutral policy, carefully guarding against any deep commitment to either side. But having a security treaty with the United States, we are one of its close allies. The Japanese government has publicly, if only nominally, supported the American Vietnam policy. Yet the Japanese government assistance to the South Vietnamese government has been minimal, limited to the sending of token assistance of some medical care stuffs. We feel that total commitment to either side, at this stage, will not contribute anything to the peaceful solution of the bloody...
...structured the various hierarchies in such a manner as to allow for rational advancement by younger Party members. Then the crisis created by the Great Leap failures curbed these processes. But since the "crisis" has now persisted for approximately half of the life of the CPR, one can hardly maintain that the orderly promotion of younger Party cadre was only temporarily delayed. Rather, it seems to have been permanently shelved...
...joint-appointment scheme represents an attempt to maintain a liason with established departments. Biochemists will, after all, be using laboratory facilities of the Biology and Chemistry Department. It may also have seemed politic to compromise with critics who fear that the Biology and Chemistry Department will lose some of their best men and will suffer for it. In any case, the resulting department does not appear much stronger than the existing Biochemistry committee...