Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glorious and innocent weeks between Iowa and New Hampshire, Bush bragged incessantly in his Ivy League-cheerleader tones of having "the Big Mo" (momentum). But he did only well enough to maintain his new status as No. 2 going into the Southern round. Gamely and accurately, Bush summed up his New Hampshire debacle...
...political season began, the nation was supposed to see a new Reagan: as conservative as ever, but speaking in gentler words, campaigning less strenuously, maintaining a benign air toward rivals. The reasoning was developed by John Sears: after his previous campaigns, all Republicans knew where Reagan stood, so there was no longer any need to fire up the conservatives. Rather, the necessity was to maintain what seemed like a long lead by shunning any rhetoric that would frighten away moderates. Thus...
...later popularity of abstract expressionism, Brook relentlessly pursued the realistic style and romantic mood that brought him early success in the '20s and informed his work-graceful nudes, broad, brooding landscapes, portraits of young girls caught in somber moods. Said he: "My approach is immediate. I try to maintain that first quick impression, that first quick look...
...criticism has been made by Linguist Thomas Sebeok and his wife. Anthropologist Donna Jen Umiker-Sebeok, both at Indiana University. In the introduction to a collection of reports and essays on primate language experiments to be published this month under the title Speaking of Apes (Plenum: $37,50), they maintain that much of what passes for language skill in apes can be explained by the "Clever Hans effect"-a phenomenon named for a turn-of-the-century German circus horse that astounded audiences by tapping out with his hoofs the correct answers to complex mathematical and verbal problems. In fact...
...taking a long, hard look at their own work. Premack, now at the University of Pennsylvania, thinks that Terrace's tactic of trying to treat Nim like a human baby was "silly and ill-advised," but he agrees that animals are incapable of spontaneous conversation. The Rumbaughs maintain that their more recent experiments preclude the possibility of trainers giving cues, consciously or sub consciously, to the subjects, but they have their own reservations about the linguistic ability of apes. Acknowledges Duane Rumbaugh: "There is no solid evidence to date that would indicate that the ape is ca pable...