Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tentatively committed to adopting some form of "race-conscious" policy, thanks to a razor-thin 42-39 vote two weeks ago. But recent pressure by key faculty members could easily lead the editors to overturn that commitment. We urge the review to stick to its guns, and to maintain its determination to compensate for pervasive discrimination by including race as a consideration along with grades and writing samples...
...assessors meet regularly with their "clients" and at the end of a season review a company's or individual's work. Then each panel presents a report and recommendations to the full Council--25 administrators writers, academics, and artists headed by Sir Roy and a chairman--who vote to maintain increase, decrease or eliminate a grant...
...turned off by the militant talk of the U.S. An official at the Dutch Foreign Ministry, referring to what he calls the "successor generation," notes that its members "did not experience war in any form. They take peace as the natural order of things. They resent any sacrifice to maintain peace. They are ignorant of the situation in Communist countries. They don't go there and they don't want to know. They believe that all superpowers are alike." Says Felipe Gonzalez, the leader of Spain's Socialists: "The youth of Europe did not live through the experience of having...
...doesn't go to the bump-and-grind houses; for a couple of weeks it was the highest-grossing film in the country. The theatre was filled when I saw it, but not densely packed: generally the single men keep a few seats between them, the better to maintain their reverie...
...role of elected and party officials. Many maintain that previous reforms have discouraged party leaders from participating in the nominating process, resulting in a decline in experienced judgment, weakening ties between the nominee and the party and between the party and its constituencies. Critics point to Democratic President Jimmy Carter's inability to deal with a Democratically controlled Congress as an example. To stem the decline of the participation of elected officials, the DNC adopted the Winograd Commission's recommendation to increase state delegations by 10 percent and reserve those spots for elected officials...