Word: maintain
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Barber says his chief motivation for supporting the fund drive lies in the University's proposed uses for the money. The stated goal of the drive, as President Bok said in announcing the project, is "not...to expand the size of the University, but to maintain and enhance its quality." Increasing financial aid to middle-income students and "preventing the erosion of faculty salaries" are two primary goals of the drive, says Thomas M. Reardon, director of University development. Barber says he wholeheartedly supports these two objectives, adding that "if this had been a bricks-and-morter drive, I probably...
...Diversity is the hallmark of the Harvard/Radcliffe experience," the Colleges' admissions catalogue begins. While admissions officers love to brag about that hallmark, they sometimes encounter difficulties trying to maintain it, especially when it involves achieving racial diversity...
...Saudis the help they need to defend the oil fields to the claim that it would give the U.S. a new chance to inject its own military power into the Middle East. Buckley contended that U.S. military ground crews will be required in Saudi Arabia for years to maintain the complex aircraft. He even suggested that the ground facilities could be used by U.S. forces "if we do have to go in in a hurry" in any future emergency involving oil facilities...
...instantly transformed into a red-hot political issue-potentially the first threat to the coalition that Begin stitched together last month out of his conservative Likud bloc and three small religious parties. Since one of them is Agudat Israel, its support is crucial if the Begin coalition is to maintain its razor-thin, one-vote majority in the 120-member Knesset...
...Saudis maintain that they, and not the Egyptians, are America's leading partner in the Arab Middle East. They argue that they have tried to shape their oil policy and their diplomacy to help the U.S. Only last month, at Washington's urging, they helped persuade the Palestinians to accept a cease-fire in southern Lebanon. Sadat has been isolated from most of the Arab world, note the Saudis, while they are on influential terms with almost every Arab state. The Saudis believe they are in the best position to talk the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Syrians...