Word: maintain
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...people in power use Third World people as a reserve labor force to depress wages, increase profits and maintain the status quo. They need a set of "objective" values which justify oppressive practices. This is the basis for institutional racism. Institutional racism in this society can take two forms: The first kind is the more obvious and thus more easily combatted, as in Jim Crow laws, immigration quotas, and grandfather clauses. The second, and more insidious kind, is contained in the institutions and social practices which are not inherently racist, but are racist in their effect. There are infinite examples...
...said about Third World separatism at Harvard. The evidence of Harvard's racism shows that we cannot afford to be complacent. Surely we do not advocate segregation; it is important that Third World people "interact with many different kinds of people." Nevertheless, it is essential that Third World people maintain strong ties with the Third World community. We must now unite to fight our common oppressor...
...find it appalling that the University could even contemplate the hiring of a man like Harberger whose record of support for an unjust and undemocratic military government needs no further comment, and whose continued connections to that repressive regime only help to maintain it in power...
Marglin says he has no proof of this tendency, but he points out that the Economic Department has become more narrow in its views since his undergraduate years. Then people seriously debated the issue of whether a large military budget was needed to maintain a prosperous economy. "Today it's no longer even discussed...
Kirkland finished the fall season with a solid 50-point lead over Winthrop and, although final points for the winter season won't be tabulated for another two weeks, senior Bill H. Cook, Kirkland House athletic secretary, is confident his house will maintain its lead...