Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simon said that if any aspect of the federal code is rescinded, schools like Harvard might be encouraged to ease their efforts to maintain affirmative action programs. "What we fear is throwing the baby out with the bath water," Simon said. "If they want to redesign reporting forms, they should do that, not withdraw substantive guarantees of federal supervision...
...seeking an injunction to maintain the status quo." Rosenfeld said, adding that if enactment of the amendments was temporarily enjoined, "not a single tenant will be evicted." Rosenfeld added, "the right to dispose of property is a fundamental constitutional right," and said property owners would suffer "irreparable damage" from enforcement of the amendments...
...result of policy but lack of policy. Since the end of World War II, U.S. bases in West Germany have been regarded as "temporary." For years Congress refused to authorize funds to improve them on the ground that it would be a waste of money to maintain facilities that were surely about to be abandoned. The Viet Nam War made maintenance of these bases a secondary concern. After that, improvements were further delayed while diplomats and Army brass tried to persuade the West Germans and NATO to share the cost. West Germany has agreed in principle to offer "host support...
...controls, chopped $3 billion from the fiscal 1982 Energy Department budget, scaled back conservation and solar research programs, and sharply curtailed investment in synthetic-fuel projects. Reagan Administration officials admit that under such a free market energy program, fuel prices will rise until they reach world levels. But they maintain that the payoff will be more conservation of precious fuel, higher domestic energy production, and ultimately less dependence upon Middle East oil suppliers...
...their own defense, lawyers insist that most legal consumers, while expecting topflight legal expertise, have no idea what it costs to maintain a first-rate law firm. An up-to-date law library can cost upwards of $25,000 annually. First-year associates from the best law schools are now expecting salaries from $30,000 to $40,000 a year from large firms in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. What is more, telephone bills, rents, messenger services, copying equipment and supplies, plus new computerized billing and information systems, can push a law firm's overhead...