Word: maintain
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...with displaying art and educating the public, the ICA shows only contemporary works, whereas institutions like the MFA, obviously, have displays from all periods. A natural divergence results from this philosophical division. Institutions like the MFA are museums, they collect art and so take on the responsibilities of investigating, maintaining and educating the public about the works in their collections. The ICA, concerned as it is with the art of the present, has no collection, nor for that matter does it have the space or the finances to maintain a collection. That, according to Ross, is a double-edged sword...
...political objective of the Soviet insistence on a separate INF balance of Soviet forces against British French forces is to maintain outside the Soviet-American balance a separate Soviet arsenal of "European" nuclear missiles and bombers. The Soviets have aimed these "European" weapons both militarily and politically at West Germany. This special category of Soviet INF weapons seeks to preempt the "worst case scenario" for Soviet military planners the reunification of Germany as a result of political upheavals in East Germany or the adjoining East European Communist states...
...Geneva, according to most of the panel participants. Kaiser predicted that they would "let us go through the agony of decision because it provides opportunities they have not had in the past." In this situation, said Joseph Biden, a Democratic Senator from Delaware, there is a vital need to maintain the credibility of the alliance so that the Soviets will realize they must talk seriously. Said Biden: "If the Russians saw God and God said, 'They're really going to deploy,' the Russians would negotiate." But West European panelists were not convinced. They feared that just...
...sticking points remain significant. Both sides agree that a security zone should be set up in southern Lebanon to prevent the return of Palestinian guerrillas and to protect northern Israel from cross-border attacks, but they disagree on the details. The Israelis maintain that their soldiers should be free to accompany their Lebanese counterparts on patrol, with the right to conduct man hunts, property searches and identity checks. The Lebanese reject that demand and instead insist that the Israelis be allowed to take part only in "joint supervisory teams," with no military or police powers whatsoever. The Israelis, moreover, want...
...Yale operates on a college system similar to Harvard's house system, the main difference being that students are assigned to colleges at the beginning of freshman year. Although students do not live in the residential colleges until the beginning of their sophomore year, both students and administration officials maintain that the residential colleges are an integral part of Yale life...