Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond his control. He sees the road ahead as two parallel lines. First, in full awareness that his prospects for the foreseeable future rest almost entirely in Lyndon Johnson's hands, he intends to discharge his vice-presidential duties precisely as the President prescribes. Second, Humphrey aims to maintain his own political links around the country, has already stumped enthusiastically on behalf of Democratic candidates and the party coffers, and will doubtless intensify his campaign efforts as the November elections-and future Novembers-near...
...industrialized state will be unable to provide college space for several thousand new high school graduates or treat more than 1,000 retarded children now awaiting state care. It will have to defer badly needed highway construction, and deny the financial aid that its two major railroads need to maintain commuter service...
...those parts of the South where the law has two faces, one black and one white, this may be appropriate. But in the North, particularly in Chicago, the law has just one face applicable to all. No one is above the law here." Stubbornly, King vowed last week to maintain his stewardship, pending a hearing next month on Landlord Bender's protest...
...Even when a merger is arranged, success is by no means assured. The new afternoon paper will still face competition from the New York Post, which by cutting down on its news coverage has managed to stay in the black. Hearst and Scripps-Howard expect their new paper to maintain the combined circulation of the existing two papers; yet these papers appeal to two distinct sets of readers. The Telegram is aimed at the commuter from the well-to-do suburbs; the more obstreperous Journal-American, with its line-up of combative columnists, is directed primarily at city dwellers...
...report, compiled after a ten-month study by nine professors under the leadership of Medievalist Charles Muscatine, proposes 42 changes designed to maintain Berkeley's ranking as the nation's best public university campus. They pinpoint the ways in which a huge campus can generate what the report terms "a rich pluralism" in education, yet "preserve its integrity and stability while accepting change...