Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fell's assertion that Ogam is an ancient Celtic script that reached both Ireland and America after its origin on the Iberian peninsula, both Goddard and Calvert Watkins, professor of Linguistics and the Classics, maintain that there is a well-established literature on Ogam that identifies it as a script developed in Ireland by someone who knew Latin, sometime around...
...Soviet Union for their treatment of dissidents-a type of public criticism that Kissinger resisted because he felt it would not produce the desired result-and could damage detente as well. Last week the Soviets arrested a prominent dissident and expelled an American correspondent. Would the State Department maintain a sort of running commentary on such incidents as they occurred? Vance tried to blunt the issue by declaring that U.S. criticism of foreign governments should be neither "polemical" nor "strident," but would occur "from time to time when we see a threat to human rights...
...party nominations for parliamentary seats be reserved for younger candidates; Ram and other members of the old guard may have feared that Mrs. Gandhi was on the verge of replacing them with fresh faces. Ram's walkout will impede her efforts to reorganize the party, forcing her to maintain a delicate balance between young and old candidates...
...Metropolitan District Commission, the agency that will build and maintain the Kennedy Park, recently solicited bids for the construction, but has yet to select a contractor...
...eight-year veteran of the Harvard admissions office is an ardent booster in other, less visible ways. A member of the Harvard Hockey Solicitors Committee and treasurer of the Friends of Harvard Hockey, Richardson hopes that the Crimson skaters can maintain the unique three-level program that has been abandoned for fiscal purposes at other institutions...