Word: maintain
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Landolt again tallied on a pass from Jim Kilkowski to up the lead to 9-6. After a goal by Princeton's Pete Johnson, Ince chalked up his third score to maintain the three-goal edge...
...Angeles County Republican Committee?a big post for a man in his early 30s?he was invited to Washington by Nixon in 1958 to handle the then Vice President's bid for the 1960 presidential nomination. That year he became Nixon's campaign director. Many observers of that contest maintain that if Nixon had not persisted in meddling with every detail of the campaign?an unfortunate tendency he learned to master in 1968?he would have become President eight years sooner...
Reshuffling the Burden. The "most critical problem," said Assistant Treasury Secretary (for tax policy) Edwin Cohen at the House hearings, is to maintain "confidence in the tax structure." Nixon's program seeks to do that by reshuffling some $4 billion in tax liabilities without much altering the $165 billion federal income-tax take. Thus the impact on the inflation-ridden U.S. economy is likely to be small. The main thrust, as Nixon described it, is to "lighten the burden on those who pay too much, and increase the taxes of those who pay too little." He added: "We shall...
White House economists nevertheless maintain that the economy is performing close to their expectations. They contend that it normally takes about six months before monetary and fiscal measures begin to affect prices. "We must recognize the narrow social tolerances within which economic policy must operate," says Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers. "The cold-turkey treatment of sharp deflation is not available in the modern world." If the spring fever proves resistant, the Government's cures should, along with the anticipated seasonal slack, begin to show some results by summer...
...secondary role in the formation of a new political consciousness. The tension between art and politics, which is also part of the subject matter of the play, was present in Shea's mind as he was writing the play. If the play is a success, then, it ought to maintain that balance throughout and fall neither into the trap of direct political statement telling people to become radicals, nor into that of a decadent art-for-art's-sake, the two extremes that Shea tries to avoid. The first, he maintains, is usually...