Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There should be no distinction betweenscholarship and teaching, but we know that's nottrue," Porte said. "There's every reason in theworld why a certain percentage of our faculty areworld class scholars, whether or not they're greatteachers." Porte said that Harvard needs suchscholars to maintain its reputation in theinternational arena of scholarship...
...true reason, I suspect, was fear of the Board of Overseers itself. For 100 years the Board has been a polite, compliant group, quietly rubber-stamping the administration's decisions. President Eliot--no slouch when it came to gathering power for the administration--said that the Board should maintain an attitude of suspicious vigilance toward the Corporation. But this vigilance was relaxed and relaxed, and the Board went to sleep...
Coors continues to expand into new states and the boycott continues to follow. And boycotters maintain that as long as Coors exists, they will too. Hilary Richard, manager of Harvard Law School's pub, which does not sell Coors, says, "to the extent that [the family has] politicized themselves, I don't think that they can separate their politics from their business...
Project architects said they were careful to design a cafe that would maintain the public nature of the outdoor plaza...
Many experts believe the really blatant cases of insider profiteering are rare, despite the hubbub. "The vast majority of the people on Wall Street are not doing it," says Edward Brodsky, a Manhattan securities lawyer. "Those who are, however, infect the integrity of the entire marketplace." Maintaining that integrity has been a difficult challenge in the deregulated, hurly-burly Wall Street of the 1980s, where traders have been tempted to use insider tips to maintain their competitive edge...