Word: maintain
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...vacated by Sen. Richard Schweiker (R.-Pa.) will become an East/West conflict. Democratic candidate Peter Flaherty, Pittsburgh's whiz-kid mayor during the early '70s counts on strong support from his hometown and the surrounding industrial valleys, while the Republican contender, former Philadelphia District Attorney Arlen Spector seems to maintain the allegiance of the densely-populated southeast...
Opponents maintain the amendment offers legislators too much opportunity to railroad a bill through the houses, attach an emergency preamble and have it go into effect immediately without the customary 90-day wait. That kind of action, they say, would undermine the voters' right to referendum and the courts' right to review...
...efforts failed. Perhaps the greatest humiliation was that the amendment never even made it before the legislature, falling one vote shy of being considered. NOW leaders, including Beth Broderson, president of the Boston chapter, maintain, however, that because the amendment never went up for a vote, "Illinois cannot be considered a repudiation." Following the Illinois defeat, NOW strategists sat down at last month's national meeting in Texas and devised a battle plan: monitor the results of legislative races in the 15 unratified states to determine which will be the most likely to pass the ERA. The three targeted states...
Dixon never quite broke out of the pack at the start and spent the entire race getting jostled, while McNulty took the race out hard and was Harvard's number two man at the mile mark. But McNulty couldn't maintain the pace and the freshman had to drop back...
...Marcos vigorously retracted his hints that he would consider lifting martial law when the April 6 Movement--which the dictator contends is linked to Aquino--pulled its convention bombing, and conspicuously called into question Marcos' capacity to maintain peace and order. The guerillas stopped short of assassinating Marcos (it appears they easily could have), preferring instead to flaunt their havoc-wreaking. For his part, Aquino denied any connection with the April 6 Movement, a fact even acknowledged by the terrorists who declared him their leader "even though he hasn't yet recognized...