Word: maintain
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...have expanded little since. Financial considerations have limited their growth, but if a professor is sufficiently convinced that a student has the interest to profit from an independent study with him, and if he is willing to spare the time, there is no reason to prohibit it. Departments, however, maintain varying standards in accordance with their self-image, and even honor students are often denied the independent study by a department. Many students probably would not want the freedom, but for those who do, the departments should grant...
Murphy knows this. He knows how hard it is to get up for the easy meets. He knows the negative pressure of trying to maintain a record, trying to avoid defeat...
...departures in philosophy, no major policy shifts, in his fifth State of the Union speech. Confronted by a Congress that is more in the mood for retrenchment than revolution, he concluded that the most prudent possible strategy would be to avoid asking for any expensive new programs but to maintain the thrust of the old ones. "We've got to keep the momentum," he told aides beforehand...
...time Fuentes also works in some sarcasm about the Mexican ethos, particularly his country's lively relationship with death and all its trappings. Mythology and symbolism are planted in conspicuous places for those readers who relish those forms of mental exercise, and there is enough sexual activity to maintain interest through the long, cold tussles with radical existential philosophy. Once again onanism is used to reflect the spiritual isolation of the age, and sodomy is seen as an important portal to self-awareness...
Nevertheless, sentiment for free tuition is not completely unfounded. Society also benefits if its electorate and labor force are well educated, and it has a vital interest in helping maintain its educational institutions. The second question uncovers the greatest trouble with the Zaccharias plan: the Bank might serve to excuse the nation from its responsibility to educate its citizens...