Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must maintain nuclear superiority over or at least equality with the Soviets. Because we have had a nuclear stockpile, we have been able to exist peacefully with the Soviet Union for the past 30 years. Any position that does not advocate a nuclear balance will make the U.S. vulnerable...
...think it is important that the University kep a certain distance from politics. While it can be healthy if some professors who are involved in current politics and policy use that experience to inform their colleagues and their work, it is only healthy if such professors maintain their objectivity. That is what I meant when I was correctly quoted as saying that my political role was peripheral...
...diverting attention from your own shortcomings, as the Argentinian dictatorship found when it tried to seize the Falkland Islands from British control. When the attempt failed, so did the dictatorship. Somewhat the same fate of internal overthrow is feared by the regimes of Syria and Jordan, and to maintain their positions they are expending much of their time and energy to suppress these fundamentalist sects. Israel can now reap the indirect reward, if it so desires...
...become. In any event, Israeli casualties from terrorism have never amounted to more than a fifth of the number of injuries from traffic accidents in any given year. Their emotional impact has always constituted their main effect on public opinion. 5)Verifiable guarantees that the Palestinians will not maintain troops, and that the West Bank as a whole will be a completely demilitarized zone...
...Harvard is not immune to the subtle bigotries which characterize race relations elsewhere. Freshman Black tables represent an attempt to maintain a cultural identity which is different from, but in all respects equal to, that of mainstream white American society...