Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost World? The rush was on because speculators-some avaricious, some panicky, some merely prudent-had become convinced that the U.S. and its partners could not much longer maintain the $35 price. With a balance of payments deficit of $3.6 billion last year and a war in Viet Nam that is costing some $30 billion annually, the U.S. has seen its gold reserves shrink by 50% from a postwar peak of $24.6 billion. Now, believed the speculators, the U.S. was nearing the end of its gold tether. If the U.S. could no longer sell gold to all takers...
...precise characterization, long pauses, distilled emotion, and tight pacing that presented the final pistol shots of an Ivanov or Seagull as the Q.E.D. of human tragedy, lucidly observed. In English-language productions, all this has been sustained by country-house diction supported by the characterological self-control necessary to maintain strong emotion over long sentences. These productions were, and are often powerful but they have two chronic diseases--boredom spawned by excessive refinement of speech and movement, and sympathetic anesthesia brought on by conventions that often dwindle into mannered absurdities. An audience can have too much of droopy trees...
Students are quick to impute vindictive motives to the deans. Frequently, however, discipline at Shaw seems to represent an honest effort to maintain Shaw's reputation in a largely Baptist community. Raleigh is a town where even the graffiti are pious--and Shaw cannot afford to make enemies...
...Labor government thereupon asked the Queen to intercede, but her plea was rejected by the Rhodesian high court. "Her Majesty is quite powerless in this matter," said Rhodesian Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, who had hitherto been known as a "Queen's man" for arguing that Rhodesia must maintain residual links with the Crown...
...Kennedy has a greater knowledge of the Byzantine ways of state and urban Democratic power groups whose partial backing any anti-war candidate will eventually need to overturn the President at the Chicago convention. Kennedy can command the funds for the massive media campaign that will be required to maintain the momentum McCarthy started Tuesday. On both counts, McCarthy is lacking, and the deficiencies could all too easily make his challenge futile...