Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first persons to show an interest in the BGMA's problems was Eddy Sullivan, the business agent for Local 254 of the Building Services Employees International Union (AFLCIO). Sullivan's union represents all sorts of workers who maintain and service buildings. Nearly 2500 of the 5000 members in the local are employed by universities, and dealing with universities is Sullivan's self-professed area of expertise...
...innovation, said L.B.J., might be the appointment of community "service officers," who would know and maintain close relations with people in neighborhoods...
...Communist Party announced that the army would take control of the municipal, security and police posts in Peking to ensure "the maintenance of revolutionary order." It was a sweeping grant of powers, and it showed the extent to which Mao must now depend on force rather than persuasion to maintain his position...
...Guys like that win national championships," he feels. They are men who maintain themselves through a grueling tournament while more aggressive wrestlers make fatal slips at points which stallers, take advantage of for winning points...
...Viet Cong killed by 6. Of course the official estimate is insane but it is not a N.Y. Times figure. I would like to ask you Ambassador Goldberg whether you think our ends in Vietnam can possibly justify the extraordinary brutality of our means? And whether we can maintain the freedom of the Vietnamese by killing them and their choice--their right to choose their own government--by subjecting them to a more significant degree of coersion than any country of that size has ever been subjected to. Isn't it possible that a war that can only be fought...