Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This fall, Harvard has a unique chance to remedy the situation. It will release its report to the community, the first such document in five years, outlining its plans and its "needs." That report should maintain the "red line"--a self-imposed expansion boundary laid down in 1972 which is more than large enough to accommodate any new construction. It should furthermore promise to replace any unit of rental housing converted to institutional with another unit priced the same and on the open market. And it should declare that no buildings will be constructed, no present units converted, without...
...extensive black-market economy is condoned by the government. Desperate for Western currency, it allows citizens to maintain foreign currency bank accounts. More than 5 million Poles have such accounts, with estimated deposits of $400 million. The cash may be earned legally in various ways, sent in by relatives in the West or obtained on the black market. It can be deposited at 4% interest or spent in special hard-currency shops on imports and otherwise unobtainable Polish goods like high-quality vodka and clothing. Those who have no dollars can only go to so-called komercyjne, or commercial shops...
...prosperous residents of the city and its nearby suburbs-the kind of readers who could help the News attract more department-store advertising. The problem for the News will be to attract those "upscale" readers while still appealing to the average straphanger. News editors insist that they can maintain the necessary split personality. For example, they believe that Tonight will not cut into the morning News circulation, since most of the anticipated evening readers will be suburbanites who do not buy the morning paper anyway...
...considerable. Since grouse exist only on tender heather shoots, the lands must be burned over once a year to provide new growth and must be patrolled constantly to protect the young birds from predatory varmints. Moreover, the castles and stately mansions have become horrifically expensive to heat and maintain. However many brace of birds (the British, like Noah, always count them by twos) they may shoot, the Guns of August are allowed to keep only a few a day for personal consumption. Most are shipped south to salivating diners...
...Macdonald wrote nearly 20 years ago: "If nine-tenths of the citizens of the United States, including a recent President, were to use inviduous, the one-tenth who clung to invidious would still be right, and they would be doing a favor to the majority if they continued to maintain the point." -ByR.Z. Sheppard. Reported by John M. Scott and Janice C Simpson/New York