Word: maintain
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Brokers like McCollester insist that the Government is making a mistake by ending the swaps on the grounds that they are depriving the U.S. of capital-gains tax revenue. Left to their own devices, the professionals maintain, stockholders are not likely to sell the stocks and pay the tax; moreover the Government collects whenever fund managers sell off some shares to pay costs or make portfolio changes. The brokers, of course, are also sorry to lose "big ticket" business. The average swap-fund transaction involves $85,000 in stock and a $2,975 commission v. the average commission of about...
...G.O.P. meeting, Nebraska's Fred Seaton, Interior Secretary under President Eisenhower, sent letters to all committeemen and state chairmen eulogizing Nixon as "the single Republican with the stature, the requisite abilities and the qualities of leadership essential to unite us and maintain our current momentum." More discreetly, Nixon fanciers were hard at work clearing the track for their steed. To make sure that Front Runner Romney does not lock up the nomination in advance of next year's G.O.P. convention, they quietly encouraged favorite-son candidacies, at the same time talked up such moderate alternatives to Romney...
...Wellman, 66, stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender of university autonomy. Insisting that he will not be "a mere housekeeper," he vowed to "maintain and strengthen the non- political character of the university" while the regents undertake a nationwide search for a successor to Kerr-a task that could well take months...
...have succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought sorrow to mankind..." And the Charter goes on to state these objectives: "to establish conditions under which justice, and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained ... and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security...
This was also the experience President Truman had in mind when--at a period when the United Nations was incapable of protecting Greece and Turkey from aggression -- he said: "We shall not realize our objectives unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes...