Word: maintain
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Specifically, this is where two kinds of Harvard committee come in--standing committees and special committees. There are, at present, 37 standing committees within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. They exist, in general, to maintain those parts of Harvard that either cross the boundaries of academic departments--or are not closely related to actual instruction...
...much as in 1964, mostly because there are half a dozen hopefuls in 1968 as opposed to two in that year. Candidates traditionally inflate their foes' spending and poor-mouth their own, but their counterclaims give a good indication of the money involved. McCarthy's aides maintain that the Kennedy camp is spending $3,500,000 in California on television alone; an Indiana foe of both R.F.K.'s and McCarthy's says that each lavished $2,000,000 on the primary there...
SUBMARINE duty in the U.S. Navy is known as "the silent service," and for grim reason. In two world wars, combat subs have cloaked themselves in quiet while stalking enemy prey, and even in the deepwater missions of peace, their nuclear-powered successors maintain infrangible radio silence for as long as 13 days at a time. Last week, with the almost certain loss of U.S.S. Scorpion, that silence appeared tragically unwise and probably unnecessary...
...Common Market members. Elimination of all tariffs within the Market, meanwhile, will completely open French borders to the goods of such powerful trading partners as West Germany and Italy-which, in view of the current situation, leads to fears that France may try to maintain its tariffs past next month's deadline...
...getting away from wife and family were worth a forty hour week). And because the choice of the base figures may be rather arbitrary, there are bound to be inequities. The problem of equity becomes more acute the closer the base figure comes to the actual amount necessary to maintain a standard of living that could be described as middle class. The position of the middle class worker may be ill-informed, but it is not irrational. If he must work long hours, often at dull jobs, for his living; he may rightly think it unfair to give the same...