Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gray said MIT will maintain its position on the "terribly complicated" issue of divestiture of South Africa-related investments, adding that it is "appropraite for MIT to urge companies to hold to the Sullivan Principles." The multinational Sullivan Principles set guidelines for the conduct of corporations in developing countries...
...history of antagonism between blacks and Jews goes back many years and has been deeply hurtful to both people. This pitting of one oppressed group against another has only served to help maintain the status quo and to make real gains for either group...
...Communication is always central and given this institution, communication is designed to be confusing," Simone Reagor, director of the Forum said last night. The Forum serves to maintain a sense of the Radcliffe community through University-wide activities...
Each decade he would smash his own work, forgoing modernization, shaking up the bureaucracy, purging its leadership, resisting progress in order to maintain undefiled values that could be implemented, if at all, by a simple peasant society...
...formula acknowledging the unity of China, which was the one point on which Taipei and Peking agreed, without giving up our existing relationships. I finally put forward the American position on Taiwan as follows: "The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China ... The United States Government does not challenge that position." Chou and I refined the text until at 8:10 a.m., concluding a nearly nonstop session of 24 hours, we had agreed on the main outline. We had scheduled our departure for 9 a.m. Chou took...