Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environment creates a real crazy attitude in demanding people to be thin and exercise a lot, be successful and perfect, all as a package deal. There's also the suggestion that we can still eat what we want [and maintain this image]. There's no woman who isn't affected [in some way by this pressure]," says Honnet...
...alumni to consider the proper role of the overseers, and how best that role can be fulfilled. She states that the board of overseers "does not have powers to set policies for the investment of Harvard's endowment" and that its mission "has been to encourage the University to maintain the highest attainable standards as a place of learning...
...criticized Harvard diversity by questioning the worthiness of athletes to attend this university. He has asserted that athletics are not of such a lofty nature as to deserve the attention of educated people (casting himself in the fold of Socrates dissatisfied). He lacks faith in the University to maintain its standards of integrity in its athletic program. But most importantly, he believes that the general student body is wrong to exhibit enthusiasm and spirit in support of their athletic teams. I, and my roommates who have cosigned this letter, are varsity athletes. Our contact with and participation in Harvard athletics...
...slowdown comes at a time when such monumental undertakings as the $3.4 billion Riyadh International Airport and the $18 billion industrial city of Jubail are largely complete. Yet those and other ambitious projects will now cost millions to maintain. Perhaps because of that, the suddenly penny- pinching Saudis have been making life miserable for foreign companies accustomed to more opulent treatment. "It's horrible now," says one American contractor in Riyadh. "They don't pay, there's little new business, and they nickel-and-dime you to death with inspections and rules...
Agreeing that verification is crucial, proponents of a complete test ban argue that it would be easier to verify than the current threshold ban, because the Soviets have offered on-site inspection for the total test ban. But many in the Administration, led by Perle, maintain that even on-site monitoring offers little promise. "There's no way a few inspectors can police the whole Soviet Union," Perle says. For these hard-liners, the need to stay ahead of Moscow's modernization program is paramount. Concedes Perle: "I'm opposed to a comprehensive test ban even if it were verifiable...