Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corrupting the "value of science knowledge and process in biology" He feels the value of science at the universities "will diminish accordingly" Although his university has not drawn up guidelines for the biotechnological area professors are not supposed to become directors of companies and at the same time maintain full professorships with the university...
...appalled to read that Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz would not feel guilty about helping a murderer go free-even if he killed again [May 17]. His thesis, that it's just part of the process necessary to "maintain the freedoms we have," is bizarre. If his theory is true, I'd gladly settle for a little less freedom...
...meeting with Governor Reagan in 1972 left me with a favorable impression. I had never before met a person who, if he was not knowledgeable on a subject, said so explicitly, without hiding behind phrases devoid of content. President Reagan should maintain this habit and oblige his fellow leaders to be precise and concrete...
...along the lines of his own erratic and opportunistic temperament. As he described it, the party was "super-relativist," with only one guiding light: Italy. "Our myth is the greatness of the nation," he said, adding that it was the historical mission of an antiliberal elite to build and maintain that greatness. When he became Prime Minister in 1922, after the famous March on Rome, he made it clear that to him greatness meant conquest. He vowed "never to leave the Italians in peace," and, so far as he was capable, he kept his promise...
...Exiled South African poet Dennis Brutus calls them "a figleaf to cover up the obscenity of the Corporations" working in South Africa. We agree with Brutus and others like him. So what if IBM treats its 200 Black employees nicely when its computers help the illegitimate South African government maintain its systematic repression of millions of others...