Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transformation from an impoverished Caribbean stepchild of the U.S. to a commonwealth of increasingly robust economic health. Then, in 1965, Muñoz's hand-picked successor, Roberto Sánchez Vilella, took over. Muñoz, who went into semiretirement as a senator, continued to maintain a jealous watch over the aging party that he had founded. Increasingly irked by his successor's independent ways, he and a coalition of P.D.P. leaders last week denied Sáchez nomination to a second gubernatorial term and all but drummed him out of the party...
...economist invite us into the picture. By then, too many of the important decisions have been made." Nat Owings heartily agrees. He knows from experience that once decisions have been built into concrete, they are there to stay. He also sees the architect as the only person trained to maintain the balance between those esthetic qualities that give grace to modern city living and the multiple commercial, cultural and humanitarian demands made on the organization of the city...
Measuring a Jellyfish. Most companies, however, continue to maintain at least some rules of dress, particularly for those employees dealing directly with the public. American Airlines has begun allowing its telephone girls to wear mufti, but still specifies clean-lined blue uniforms for those at the front desk. At most brokerage houses, securities salesmen are expected to dress conservatively. Far more freedom is given to back-office clerical workers, who are even more out of sight, both literally and figuratively, now that they are buried behind piles of paper work...
...jeopardizing the Black man's total existence. "Mass Black Genocide" is what it's become known as in the Black communities. A lot of credit and respect is due the Black man. He in spite of the White pressures, White chains of oppression and White discrimination has managed to maintain a family structure. He has managed to work his way onto the stage of life where the lights of opportunity shine brightly. And he has made his mind up to take himself a major role in the modern American Drama. Little Black children everywhere can hold their beautiful black heads...
There are many people who maintain that whatever message the cryptogram contained has long since become useless knowledge. If this is true, it can only be due to the Beatles' disappointment when they found that no one in the world was hip enough to play their game...