Word: maintain
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...upheld during the Malvinas Falklands war should be applied un-equivocally in the case of East Timor: no nation has the right to armed aggression. And as Tsongas has pointed out: the issue of East Timor is separate from our relations with Indonesia. It is perfectly possible to maintain friendly relations with an importantally in Southeast Asia, and still pressure it to respect the international...
...desire to see that Professor Klein is able to stay here, it is important to understand her denied promotion in the context of a consistent pattern of decisions about tenure and promotion. Harvard is not particularly committed to finding and retaining talented teachers. Rather, their goal is to maintain the reputation--not the quality--of this institution by tenuring well-known scholars regardless of their ability to teach. In fact, those professor who have committed time and energy to teaching and to their students often found themselves behind in the race to publish and to achieve academic renown. Not only...
...scholars make no recommendations on Reagan's plan to build the MX missile, but they conclude that whatever the final decision on the MX, the U.S. should maintain a land-based missile force, even if its is "theoretically vulnerable" to Soviet attack...
...Students who qualify as finalists in the National Merit Scholarship competitions can get full tuition ($4,600) from Trinity University in San Antonio for four years if they maintain a 3.25 average. When it started the program in 1980, Trinity attracted only 19 of the nation's 13,500 National Merit finalists, who are chosen by rigorous exams. This fall the school expects to enroll between 45 and 55 finalists...
...first time, Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., is offering 15 merit scholarships of $4,000 to top high school achievers. Says David Gould, dean of admissions: "It's a very competitive market, and we hope to maintain our position...