Word: maintain
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...attempt by the Western broadcast and news media to maintain international press freedom [June 1] has my support. Communism and other dictatorial regimes should not be able to hide their daily atrocities. UNESCO must not engineer suppression of the truth...
...sizable swing vote on crucial legislation. This time the splinter parties got only 24 seats as voters rallied to either Labor or Likud. In the final analysis, though, it was Labor that demonstrated the most significant gains. The party managed to overcome deep divisions of its own to maintain its following among the secular-minded professional and urban population, and showed impressive strength (up to 30% in some places) among Israel's Arab citizens, largely because of a belief that Labor is more concerned than Likud for their day-to-day welfare...
...suit to break up A T & T, in part by spinning off its equipment manufacturing division, Western Electric. But the adverse Litton decision may nonetheless make it politically more difficult for the Reagan Administration to drop the case, as both the Commerce Department and the Pentagon have urged. They maintain that the nation's economy and security require a strong...
...Tennis officiating is a fine art, requiring split-second judgments on tennis balls traveling 150 m.p.h., but at Wimbledon it is done by amateurs who only last year were required to have their eyesight checked. Players whose paychecks ride on such hairbreadth decisions find it difficult to maintain a stiff upper lip when bad calls rob them of crucial points. Tim Mayotte, 20, a surprise quarter-finalist, explains, "Yes, McEnroe is ridiculous. But umpires are making mistakes too. Ask a question, and the umpire will just turn away and say, 'Play on.' You can understand the frustration...
Civil libertarians and ERA proponents were bitterly disappointed. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "It perpetuates the myth that we can't cut the mustard, when we know that we can." She and others maintain that many men refuse to back the ERA and other guarantees of equality on the ground that since women do not bear certain burdens, like the draft, they are not entitled to all of society's benefits. Most scholars, however, do not view the decision as a major high-court retreat on sex discrimination. Says University of Virginia...