Word: maintain
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SURELY Volkswagen and the Kennedy School could have found a more praiseworthy figure in post-war German-American relations than John J. McCloy to commemorate with a scholarship program. If, as Jewish and Asian-American student groups--and such magazines as The New Republic--maintain, he was responsible for the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, the refusal to bomb the railroad tracks leading to German concentration camps, and the pardoning of Nazi war criminals' after the war, then McCloy is guilty of gross injustices. If, as the majority editorial argues, he was merely carrying out Roosevelt...
...with Cambridge unable to complete the on going property revaluation that would allow the city to maintain revenues while cutting taxes to Prop 21/2 levels. Cambridge probably would spread its required 15 percent property tax cut over two years, Richard C. Rossi, deputy city manager, said last week. He added that the change would only give the city more time to handle the tax cut, without changing the actual intent of Prop 21/2...
Actors, or more correctly, "stars," usually fall into the latter category. Goldman realizes how much pressure our dearly idolized must undergo to maintain their prestige; he also realizes that if he's fifteen pages into a script and its star has yet to appear, he'll probably be told that his text is "misstructured." Stars, he asserts, demand that all the witty lines come from their characters' mouths, all the clever ideas from their characters' heads...
...State Department, characteristically, is the stronghold of what might be called pragmatic traditionalists and Atlanticists, men like Eagleburger and Assistant Secretary for Europe Richard Burt, a former think-tank strategist and New York Times reporter. They believe that it is critically important to maintain close ties with America's allies and that it is still possible for the U.S. to sit down with the Soviets even as it stands up to them...
...promised a slow and gradual return of democratic freedom to Brazil by 1985, ordered units of the Brazilian army in Sāo Paulo on alert last week. But he let it be known through an official spokesman that it was the state government's responsibility to maintain public order...