Word: maintain
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...Jersey). This should have brought into force the Hickenlooper amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, which would cancel all aid funds, but Washington held off because the matter was still in litigation, with I.P.C., backed on principle by the State Department, demanding just compensation. The Peruvians maintain that they will pay such compensation once they collect the far larger amount that they claim is owed by I.P.C. for "illegal" extraction...
...systems analysts, programmers and operators. The burgeoning aerospace field needs specialists in aeronomy and the ionosphere, experts in lunar and planetary studies. Even social ills create new careers. All the prodigal wastes of the era demand new experts-in smog and pest control, not to mention sanitation technology. Ecologists maintain a watch on the total environment, noting how change in one area triggers change in others. Ethnologists explore ways of dampening human violence before it becomes hopelessly harnessed to all the lethal weapons available. City planners try to bring some order out of the urban sprawl. The research institutes...
...plausible to provide a student with broad concepts into which he can fit the necessary de tails later. Robert Hutchins, for one, has proposed that the college years be devoted exclusively to a liberal education; career skills can be acquired on the job. In effect, many big corporations already maintain impressive educational systems to provide such training...
From that list, the students with various qualities are divided among the Houses. To maintain relative homogeneity among the groups going to different Houses, Watson assigns each House a quota of students with each listed attribute...
...them with extensive financial interests which have been repeatedly publicized by radicals, serve on the Corporation; the fifth Fellow, A. L. Nickerson, is a Republican from New York City who heads the Mobil oil company. With the exception of the youngest Fellow, Hugh Calkins from Cleveland, the Fellows maintain nearly identical life-styles in a select and self-contained world. For example, they share membership in the same exclusive clubs in Boston and New York; although Samuel Eliot Morison, who wrote authoritative histories of Harvard, reported that "no religious test has ever existed for membership in the Corporation," all three...