Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanley Hoffmann said "The choice is not really between effective and ineffective. The choice is between different degrees of effectiveness, one of which may be more moral than the other." Divestiture is the only remaining untried means to this moral end. Therefore, we urge all who seek Harvard to maintain a morally sound investment policy to contribute to the Endowment for Divestiture, to demonstrate both their concern for Harvard and the world beyond its walls. Todd Collins '83 Jess Velona'83 Spokespersons, EFD Senior Donations Committee
...murder would not affect "the economic or military aid which we are giving." In reply, Democratic Congressman Gerry E. Studds of Massachusetts, a longtime critic of U.S. policy in Central America, warned that "there will be a lot more deaths, Salvadoran and American," if the U.S. continues to maintain military personnel in Central America...
...effort to unseat "pro-Reagan Democratic Boll Weevils and Republican Reaganites," including Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Jackson has been openly flirting with the prospect of running for President and promotes the notion of a black candidacy as a way to maintain political drive. "We are going to the White House," Jackson says. "We are going from the guttermost to the uppermost." Running, he says, can be a strategy for attracting more voters and a bargaining chip with the Democrats. "When you run, you turn people on. You get people talking in barbershops...
...Prime Minister also renewed her pledge to control inflation, cut income taxes and maintain Britain's membership in the European Community. Any attempt to pull out of the Community, she said, would "put at risk millions of jobs." Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom. She made it equally plain that a new Thatcher government would stand by its commitment to improve Britain's nuclear deter rent by buying U.S.-built, submarine-launched Trident missiles and would continue to support the planned deployment of U.S. cruise missiles...
...industry first began blooming in the mid-'70s, when the young and affluent discovered tennis. Soon thereafter came jogging, aerobics and other fitness fads. No conclusive medical evidence has yet proved that exercise alone prolongs life, but that does not seem to bother those out there sweating. They maintain that they look better and feel better; maybe so, but they do keep pushing up sales of everything from running shoes to joggers' wristwatches as they puff along...