Word: maintain
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...knew that it means "narrow, limited, insular, unsophisticated" and denotes "exclusive or overwhelming devotion to one's province." The description hardly fits modern Peoria-nor does it apply to the vast areas of the U.S. that once fell under its indictment. The cities and towns of America still maintain the pride of place that has always distinguished them, but it is a pride seen in the context of the larger world rather than the old narrowness that stifled exploration and snapped minds shut...
...Reardon '32, Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and chairman of the Committee. "We were constituted rather to bring as detached and impartial a view as possible to what we were doing. We were considering the delicate balance between two ancient rights and we felt we should maintain a pure judicial approach to the accommodation between them...
...University has stubbornly refused to change its policy for readmission. Dean Monro acknowledges that former undergraduates who attended another college to avoid the draft have reapplied to Harvard, and have been rejected. Harvard's justification is that the Selective Service System is counting on colleges to maintain normal operations, and to make no academic exceptions for students because of higher draft calls. Admittedly, the University should not keep a student whose performance has been unsatisfactory simply to save him from the Army. But neither should it place an undergraduate who has fallen below normal academic levels and left Harvard...
Filed in Pittsburgh's federal district court, the Justice Department's complaint charged that some of the companies .had huddled between November 1960 and mid-1962 to "fix, stabilize and maintain" artificially high prices for inexpensive vitreous-china fixtures, involving some $30 million in sales a year; another group had agreed, beginning in 1962, to drop low-priced (and low-profit) lines of equipment while hiking the tag on the more expensive models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order...
Even with a highball from the appeals court, the Penn Central will have to maintain its milk-train speed for a while. The protesting railroads announced that they were taking the case to the Supreme Court; they petitioned Justice John Harlan, who as judicial overseer of the U.S. Second Circuit handles such appeals from New York, to grant a stay so that the full court can hear their arguments...