Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dual personality. Bianchi had frequent nightmares of being in a dark room with a strange presence, perhaps an awareness of the second personality, and severe migraine headaches. Says Watkins: "Headaches often occur when the personality underneath is trying to get out and the one on top is trying to maintain control. The battle is experienced as a severe headache." Friends from high school remember him as a loner. As an adult Bianchi was considered a ladies' man. With dark hair and a thick, slick mustache, he had no trouble attracting women...
...mandatory busing for school integration; students are allowed to attend any school they choose. But in 1973 Evelyn Johnson sued for $20,000 in damages, claiming that the Brown decision had never been put into practice in Topeka and that she was receiving an inferior education. Blacks maintain that the Topeka system permits whites to flee second-rate schools in the inner city, leaving behind lower-income nonwhites who cannot afford to travel long distances to classes...
...world economic, financial and strategic affairs. Variously smooth and snappish, OPEC'S chiefs contend that they are merely embellishing the rules of the game as taught by the oil majors. From the moment that John D. Rockefeller organized the infant U.S. petroleum industry into a producers' cartel to maintain stable and profitable prices, companies have employed one device after another to prevent price-disrupting swings between glut and shortage...
Last month Sir Murray MacLehose became the first Hong Kong Governor ever to pay an official visit to Peking. His warm reception by Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing) was a signal of Peking's intent to allow the colony to maintain its traditional status and increasingly to involve it in the push to modernization. On his return, MacLehose quoted Deng as saying that investors in Hong Kong should "put their hearts at ease." In short, China's pragmatic post-Mao leaders value Hong Kong as a window on the world and a source...
...weapons technology advancing more rapidly than ever, the U.S. must keep abreast of the latest Soviet developments, since an undetected Russian breakthrough could jeopardize the ever fragile balance of power. In a world of turmoil, frequently erupting in anarchy, the U.S. must be able to exercise its influence to maintain stability. Where the U.S. fails to do so, some authoritarian power can be counted on to fill the void. That, for better or worse, is the way things...