Word: maintain
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Moreover, it is the responsibility of all members of the academic community to maintain an atmosphere in which violations of rights are unlikely to occur and to develop processes by which these rights are fully assured. In particular, it is the responsibility of officers of administration and instruction to be alert to the needs of the University community; to give full and fair hearing to reasoned expressions of grievances; and to respond promptly and in good faith to such expressions and to widely-expressed needs for change. In making decisions which concern the community as a whole or any part...
...reasons Perkins and Ezeji-Okoye are able to maintain such a close relationship with their teammates is that their specialties are so different. Perkins is able to empathize with the distance runners, while Ezeji-Okoye can relate to the woes of the sprinters...
...attempt to make the house a "pleasant, safe and attractive place to live" and maintain its spiffy appearance after $5 million of renovations last year, K-House Master Donald H. Pfister recently informed Kirkland residents that from now on, messy hallways will not be tolerated...
...other terrifying--Swanson constructs a fairly grim mosaic of South African reality. He provides ample illustration of the humiliating laws of separation, or "petty apartheid," but is concerned foremost with stressing the broader significance of apartheid; how the minority white regime has used a theory of racial separation to maintain class domination, transforming the color line into a poverty line as well. And despite superficial reforms aimed at placating international opinion, the captains of apartheid are standing firm behind these policies...
...last week's disappointing four-second loss in a well conditioned Dartmouth crew, the Black and White lost a boatlength lead and the race, because it failed to maintain an aggressive stroke rating for the last 500 meters of the course...