Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennies for Progress. Designed and built by TRW systems, each OGO is a refrigerator-size box with 14 simultaneously operating instruments pointing in five directions. To maintain the proper altitude for the instruments, the core contains sensors and controls that are used to stabilize the craft. One face al ways points toward earth, another toward the sun, another away from the earth, one away from the sun, and a fifth in the direction the OGO travels. When two 20-ft. instrument booms and two solar panels are fully extended, the OGOs are 49 ft. long and almost 20 ft. wide...
...violence flares in U.S. ghettos, legal questions smolder in the embers: If the state is obliged to maintain civil order, must it indemnify the citizen for property loss and personal injury from riots...
Reporting on U.S. Steel last week, Roger Blough calculated that "we have passed the low point. July will be the low month." Most businessmen agree that earnings should improve slightly, but there is bound to be cost cutting and perhaps price increases to help. The Government, they maintain, could help out too. Strong feeling is developing against the President's proposed surtax of 6% or higher on earnings, on the grounds that this is no time to take another bite where the fare has thinned...
...favorite with children and with busy housewives hurrying through lunch. Even recalcitrant husbands are catching on. "They used to think that eating yogurt was somehow humiliating," says a Danone executive. "Now they are eating more and more. By having plain yogurt and not the flavored kind, they maintain their dignity...
...plan--their own Republican proposal--is not. Regardless of the merits of the Percy proposal, the use of it as a substitute for rent supplements is outrageous. Supplements aid the very poor, while the Percy bill would help only those people who could show enough income stability to maintain payments on their homes...