Word: maintain
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...those in authority. Demonstrators need not only violate unjust laws. Protesters frequently violate minor and irrelevant statutes--by trespassing, for example, at the Pentagon or the South African Embassy or the federal building in Boston--in order to dramatize the spectacle of dissenters being arrested by those determined to maintain an immoral policy...
Even so, in the few hours a day that Boesky spent at home, he lived in baronial style. He and his wife maintain a costly apartment overlooking Manhattan's East River but spend much of their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect...
...president of the Ivy Group, the League's administrative body, Jeffrey H. Orleans, says that these trends bode well for the future of Ivy League sports. "The Ivy League," he says, "demonstrates that you can maintain standards and still have very good competition...
Ellen said he expects more than the optimal number of 20 students to enroll in the calculus course. "The real limiting factor [in enrollment] is not the technology, it's the number of students you can maintain and still have the interactive process," Ellen said...
...line liberal. A former Army intelligence officer, Fowler has made military affairs a special interest, and on that subject he follows no particular ideological line. He has supported a nuclear freeze and strongly opposed the MX missile and B-1 bomber, largely because they drain away funds needed to maintain the readiness of conventional forces. But he is also an advocate of the Trident II submarine-launched missile and has voted for continued research on Star Wars while contending that the "important thing is to find a way to have meaningful and verifiable agreements between the Soviet Union...