Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City. They feel that Negro bankers who live outside Harlem--as do almost all of Freedom National's 50 employees--can drain money out of Harlem just as effectively as the white businessmen who own almost all of Harlem's stores. Black bankers do not help Harlemites, they maintain, they help themselves...
Alternative sources of funds are hard to come by in Harlem. Because Negro businesses are small and few, and white businessmen are not interested in switching their accounts to Freedom National, large business deposits which would cost less per hundred dollars to maintain have not made up for the large number of small individual accounts. Therefore, the bank must rely on building up a large enough volume of small accounts to make handling them profitable. In the bank's present situation, where the costs of funds available to loan out are high, it is a normal banking reaction to minimize...
...contrast, the U.S. finds it equally expensive to maintain 225,000 men in Western Europe. Washington is perennially faced with the problem of offsetting the balance-of-payments deficit ($1.3 billion last year) that the troops generate, and must make up for it by selling weapons to its NATO allies. Recently, the Defense Department had to twist Bonn's arm to speed up payment on $675 million in reciprocal purchases...
...pervasive Asian concept is harmony, particularly harmony with nature. In the vast landscapes, nature is an awesome thing, baking the treeless plains and flooding the valleys, drenching the jungles with monsoons, decimating populations with pestilence and plague. Life in this world has always been precarious. And the way to maintain it is the way of the bamboo before the wind-a graceful yielding...
Last week Labor's rebels took organized aim at their leader with a party motion condemning Wilson's decision to maintain Britain's east-of-Suez defense commitments. The issue was carefully chosen, since it enlisted the support of both left and right. The left wing wanted Britain out of Asia on ban-the-bomb grounds; the right wing wanted much the same in order to save money better spent at home...