Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high spirited and spectacularly effective offensive attack led by sophomore quarterback Bill Law has rallied Dunster many times to maintain its present undefeated status. Yesterday's last second 20-13 victory over Kirkland House was by far the most exciting house football game of the season...
Only in the Chicago suburbs does Percy, a daily commuter, seem to maintain a winning pace. But moderate G.O.P. candidates have always been strong in the land of the shopping center. To succeed at the polls, these Republicans will have to broaden their appeal. And Percy, opposing a respected but colorless incumbent governor, does not seem to have done this...
...market crash. He sought $663 million to push public works-a figure that critics decried as excessive. He proposed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the National Credit Corporation. He secured an early agreement in which labor promised to forgo strikes and new wage demands, Big Business agreed to maintain wages and spread work to avoid layoffs. He negotiated an international moratorium on the payment of intergovernmental debts...
...will now consider two of Goldwater's alleged inconsistencies. First, Goldwater wants to cut government spending but to maintain a strong military. Obviously, he intends to cut non-military spending. What most liberals have completely ignored is that, given the conservative fear of government power, a large military establishment makes large non-military spending more undesirable than it would otherwise be, since it adds power to a government already too powerful...
...somewhat better than sandwiches and Cokes. The capital's swankiest restaurants abound with credit-card-packing contractors wining and dining hungry procurement colonels. During conventions of military officers' associations, it has become standard practice for defense firms to pick up the tab for convention banquets. Companies also maintain "hospitality suites" in convention hotels where tired brass can booze or snooze...