Word: maintain
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...very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...
...that various immigrant groups, having experienced racial and ethnic discrimination, cling to their traditional prejudices in order to maintain their identity. While ethnic pride and cultural heritage are to be encouraged, the downgrading of other minorities is beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior. America has grown by accepting and appreciating the gifts and contributions of all our minorities and ethnic groups...
...only recently caught on in the U.S. Handwriting Analyst Sheila Kurtz, who started her own New York-based consulting firm in 1973, now advises an estimated 200 companies. Business has been particularly brisk since the Hitler-diary hoax started a new interest in handwriting analysis. But some maintain that graphology is sometimes no more reliable than the Führer's scribblings. Says Theodore Hurst, a partner in the Chicago consulting firm of Worthington, Hurst & Associates: "It's a $10 idea made into a $100 product...
Addressing the 1,378,400 members of this year's college graduating class, the largest in U.S. history, speakers across the land have warned of the dangers of nuclear war, reaffirmed the need to maintain high standards in life and pondered the challenges of adjusting to a high-tech tomorrow. Bucknell University President Dennis O'Brien was among those who offered comforting words for young people entering a world of increasing complexity. He told the graduates at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., "You go forth now into careers, into a world of performance, of doing tasks...
...food and other products without buying the goods. No one knows the total take from this sort of nickel-and-dime thievery, but industry rumors range as high as $350 million every year. A.S.I.S. reasoned that since Essent does not exist, only thieves would turn in the chits. To maintain secrecy, it did not tell the publishers that the ad was phony...