Word: maintain
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...efforts to minimize the disruptive character of the sit-in, the violation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities would have been more serious. The degree of informal cooperation between the protesters and the University authorities at 17 Quincy Street blurred certain disciplinary issues. However, this cooperation helped to maintain a constructive level of civility in the events of 17 Quincy Street that was to be, unfortunately, absent at the Lowell House incident a week later. Both the administrators and the protesters at 17 Quincy Street exhibited self-restraint, without which the incident might have ended in much sadder fashion...
...defense as they do on offense; we think a little more. We know that they have not only done a lot of research, but done some testing and development in the use of lasers for the destruction of missiles, and we have not. I think they want to maintain a monopoly. (Soviet Leader Mikhail) Gorbachev said almost as much in Paris. He said we have quite enough arms competition on the ground, and we do not want to have it in space. The President is aware that it could be destabilizing if you give one side a shield that...
Most doctors who offer the surgery maintain it is harmless, though they note that temporary tenderness, swelling and bruising can result. But last week at a meeting in San Francisco of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, physicians discussed other complications and cited three cases. In two, women lost some of their eyelashes after being tattooed. In the third, a woman suffered an allergic reaction, possibly to the pigment. Says Dr. David Tse of the University of Iowa: "I'm sure as people do more operations, more complications will be reported...
Toxins like organic solvents, PCBs and dioxin will be broken down ^ completely only when burned at temperatures exceeding 2,400 degrees F. Some conventional incinerators can generate such heat, but without careful controls to maintain high temperatures they may spew toxic gases into the air. People fear the fumes may prove as perilous as the chemicals from which they come. But new technologies may overcome these obstacles...
Besides objecting to Star Wars on political and strategic grounds, many university scientists maintain that the whole idea is technically infeasible. One report says that the computers needed to manage a missile defense, for example, would have to be up to a million times as powerful as current machines. A program to run the Star Wars computers would be so complex that no human could comprehend it, and only other computers could write it. Furthermore, say SDI opponents, the computer system might be full of bugs because it could not be tested until an actual nuclear attack was under...