Word: maintain
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...costs about $30,000 per year, probably more, to maintain such an individual. It is not, I insist, crass to speak of money in such a situation: Money is human life in a hospital. If we had more money we cohld save more lives. Remember, this man was hopelessly unconscious. Are we obliged to treat such an individual when he can be kept "alive" only by extraordinary means? Pope Pius XII answered that question plainly, clearly: "No, you are not," he said. A little later we can consider the Church's attitude to these and related matters...
...time goes back to 1951. Since then I have preferred the status of lecturer because it allowed a limited teaching load and time for research and writing. A number of administrative officers, including Dean Ford, and other faculty colleagues have gone out of their way to enable me to maintain this arrangement which is strictly one of my own choosing. Barrington Moore, Jr. Lecturer on Sociology
...Judge then branched out to attack the United States Supreme Court's leniency towards alleged obscenity "At our humble and low level, this filth doesn't go," said Adlow. "Who's getting excited about the Supreme Court? Thank God the people still maintain standards in the community...
Civil rights experts maintain that the Negro protests about promotions indicate a speedup in their desire for "upward mobility." Up to now, most well-positioned Negroes have been inclined to accept what they have without much complaint. Another reason that complaints have been slow in accumulating is that promotional discrimination is more difficult to spot than discrimination in hiring practices. "Supervisors can, in subtle ways, throw blocks at a Negro," says Raymond Scannell, a white member of the Chicago Human Rights Commission. One of the blocks, complain Negroes, is lily-white upgrading instead of the old lily-white hiring practices...
Peterson calls the docket system "a kind of quota based on the excellence of the boys involved." While it no doubt favors such places as Exeter and Andover, Peterson believes that "Harvard should maintain a Yankee flavor, and besides, schools like these were themselves selective in choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent...