Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galagher, who sat out last fall because of illness, ran a fine inaugural race and should be a great asset to the harriers this fall. Coming in at seventh, eighth, and ninth spots was the trio of freshman Linda Yeager, sophomore Wiley McCarthy, and junior Martha Clabby, striving to maintain some sense of class order as they finished...
...favorable. Many economists believe that federal spending can never be brought under control without a clampdown on the "entitlement" programs-Social Security, veterans' benefits, Medicaid-under which more Americans every year qualify for benefits that are guaranteed by law to expand. And Reagan last week pledged himself to maintain "necessary entitlements already granted to the American people," though he opposed adding any "new programs funded by deficits." Says Otto Eckstein, a Democratic member of the Board of Economists: "If you are not going to change the entitlement programs and if you want more military expenditures, there...
...Blackman can work some magic with his secondary and offensive line--and he has always had a reputation for pulling off the unexpected--Cornell could threaten for all the marbles. Right now, however, the Big Red look a little thin to maintain consistency over the grueling ten-game slate, which includes formidable Rutgers as an adversary. The Crimson will have the good fortune of catching Cornell the week after the Big Red's showdown with the Scarlet Knights...
...more experiments with living animals get under way, the longstanding debate over genetic engineering's ethical implications and potential dangers is sure to intensify. Some scientists, like Rockefeller University's Norton Zinder, maintain that experimentation with humans is still a long way off and the concern is thus premature: "No one's going to diddle with human embryos in a time frame we can understand. Maybe in a thousand years...
...Britain, American N.U.C. courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds...