Word: maintain
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Harvard's policy has always been that it wants the companies it invests in to maintain reasonable ethical standards. The University has used the Sullilvan Principles as a standard for such behavior since 1978. Recently, however, this sort of reliance on the principles has come under fire from campus groups informed on the South African issue...
...observers reject the Sullivan principles as useless. Those who maintain that the principles have been effective in promoting some change fall generally into two groups. One group believes that the principles as they are presently applied have done all that can be expected of their limited purview. Further change, this group maintains, depends on a radical reformation of the principles and an expansion of their goals. The second group believes that further progress can be achieved in South Africa without changing the principles...
...terrible things about what's happening to fraternities across the country. At Colby, the Administration is throwing the frats and sororities out of their buildings ostensibly so that the university buildings can be distributed more fairly. At Penn. the administration is considering putting faculty members into the houses to maintain closer supervision. A friend sent me this awful article from the Dartmouth that quotes. Professor of Classics Edward Bradley "Fraternities and sororities used to be needed at institutions to mix students coming from totally different backgrounds," he said at their Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. "Today, however, creating homogeneous bodies...
Rather, Anderson has managed to maintain her knack for writing clear, simple melodies which retain a haunting resonance. And the African instrumentation, rather than detracting from these melodies, heightens them; Anderson doesn't merely colour the songs with African instruments in order to give them an exotic tinge, rather she blends her elements of rock-influenced minimalism and Third World ethnic music so well that she succeeds in creating what avant-garde trumpet player Jon Hassell dubbed "Fourth World Music" "a primitive/futuristic sound combining features of world ethnic styles with advanced electronic techniques...
Some analysis maintain that even in primaries, the amount of strategic voting is relatively small. "The public polls which appear throughout the media are, by and large, a product of the spectator sport element of politics," says Geoffrey D. Garin '75, president of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a private polling company, whose clients include Democratic frontrunner Walter F. Mondale...