Word: maintain
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...trucks and 1,572 vessels to speed between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of materiel to the South. That is enough to enable the 282,000 Communist troops engaged in the war, who lately have been averaging only one or two days of fighting a month, to maintain their present rate of combat for an entire year...
...regularly plays shum-shir-the Ethiopian equivalent of musical chairs-to prevent his top ministers from gaining too much power, and he still serves as his nation's highest court: any subject in the land can appeal his grievances to the Emperor and get a personal hearing. To maintain his authority, he employs a 35,000-man army, a 29,000-strong police force, an elite palace guard and three separate intelligence services...
Most of the nation's ecumenical parishes have been organized in order to serve poverty-plagued urban slum neighborhoods, where shrinking financial resources often make it difficult to maintain separate churches. A case in point is the nation's first joint Protestant-Roman Catholic church, St. Mark's in Kansas City, Mo. (TIME, July 22), which serves a largely Negro district of 15,000. Staffed by a Catholic priest and three Protestant ministers (Episcopal, United Presbyterian and United Church of Christ), St. Mark's will break ground in May for its new building; the parish will...
...said that in general urban schools tend to be "more advanced than suburban schools." At a "backwards university" the Communists may call for some form of civil rights activity or community organizing instead of pushing for a demonstration against the war or a discussion of Marx. Thus the Communists maintain that they serve the whole movement as well as their own goals-the theory being that any radicalization of the society is a step towards socialism and the eventual downfall of American capitalism...
...hospital administrator rebutted SDS's contention that such a strike would not be detrimental to patient care by claiming that there are no non-essential workers in a hospital "when you come right down to it." "Even the housekeeping staff is essential to prevent the spread of infection, to maintain the antiseptic environment." But SDS's point is that hospitals can find temporary replacements to perform these functions if they are given advance notice of the strike...