Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insult thousands of highly trained, intelligent Air Force ground crewmen who maintain our B-52s when you suggest that Cassius Clay [Feb. 25] could learn such a skilled job. The only thing he might be able to do is blow up a tire if the air compressor broke down...
...differ. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Vernon McKay says that "a nation is a group of people who have a feeling of nationhood, based on common historical tradition, common cultural interests and, usually, common language." Rutgers Professor Neil McDonald suggests that the measure of a nation is "its capacity to maintain some kind of autonomy-political and economic-against its environment." The most sensible test of a nation's viability would seem to be economic sufficiency: the ability to support its people without massive outside aid. Such is not the case nowadays. Many statesmen and political scientists believe, in fact...
...Federal Government $19.3 million, an average of $130 per city resident. At that per capita rate of expenditure, creating a Wooster Square in every U.S. metropolitan area would cost a cool $13 billion. Another perennial headache for the metropolis is the spiraling cost of mass transportation. Simply to maintain existing systems will cost close to $2 billion a year, while only $155 million in federal money is now available...
...work with the Special Service of Rural Electrification in Sao Paulo and the Electricity Centers of Mato Grosso, extending the electrical networks of the state. They will set standards for installation, measure capacity of substations and branch lines, stake and check lines, install and inspect meters, supervise construction and maintain and repair installations...
Learning to Think. All over the U.S., medical education is suffering from growing pains. The U.S. needs to produce 11,000 new doctors a year by 1975* to maintain the present, barely adequate ratio of one practicing physician to every 1,000 people. Existing schools turned out only 7,400 graduates last year; enlargement of classes, and at least two dozen new schools, should reach the desired goal by the late 1970s. But the problem of quality will remain. Rising living standards and a growing sophistication in health matters are creating a clamorous demand for the best .in health care...