Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move came after discussion of the purposes of the language requirement this fall. The committee decided that students should become acquainted with the functions and processes of language and familiar with the literature and culture of a foreign society. And they maintain that this alternative route could be more enriching than any of the present ways of meeting Harvard's language requirement...
...said Monro, "I think it is going to be hard to maintain this position, because we did it for such a long time...
Members of the conference now plan to request the national organization, the NCAA, to alter its financial aid requirements. At present, an athlete must maintain at least a C- average to receive a scholarship from an NCAA member college...
...plays a mean English horn for the Houston Symphony. The rare bird in the Los Angeles aviary is Barbara Winters, 28, who, to produce the needed penetrating sounds from her oboe, must pit her trim 120 lbs. against male fellow oboists who average a burly-chested 200 Ibs. To maintain the exceptional breath control necessary to control her contrary instrument, Winters swims and works out daily at a gym. "It leaves me almost no time for social life," she says. "I'd hate to think what I would do if I were married...
...leading the delegation, Ford's principal technique is the Agreement to Disagree. He is a master at fuzzing over policy conflict with position papers and embracing obviously incompatible views in a single breath--gracefully avoiding commitment to both. He manges to maintain some semblance of unity among politicians who may have no more in common than the side of the aisle on which they sit. His argument, in effect, is that people with widely varying beliefs can belong to the same church (Republican), as long as they pay the minimum measure of respect expected of God-fearing men -- attendance, dues...