Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managers held a grand opening for their grill on Monday night, serving up burgers and showing a videotape of the movie "Caddyshack" on the grill's television. Eric J. Bentley '90, one of the students who own and operate the Kirkland grill, emphasizes that grill managers will "strive to maintain our number one status," referring to a survey of house grills conducted last year by The Harvard Independent...
...August, an Amnesty International report documented Israeli use of "indiscriminate and excessive" force against Paelstianians. Entitled "Israel and the Occupied Territories, Excessive Force: Beatings to Maintain Law and Order," the report details both the systemic nature and broad scale of Israeli violence against Palestinians. Hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces since December, when the Intifada, as the Palestian uprising is called, began, and thousands more have been brutally beaten, abused, incarcerated and humiliated...
...after sunny, seasonally adjusted quarter for the better part of a decade is weary work. In the sixth year of steady economic growth -- with unemployment at 5.6%, near its 14-year low, and inflation at 5.2%, modest by the standards of the early 1980s -- it is not easy to maintain the courage of your pessimism...
...bridged? At times Terkel is overtaken by despair: "What had presumably been our God-anointed patch of green appears to be, for millions of us, a frozen tundra." Yet the author cannot maintain a long face. After repeatedly exposing the country's down side, he expresses his own second thoughts on the American Dream. He decides to roll the dice with America's eternal resource: the altruistic young. They "may reflect something . . . unfashionable for the moment and thus hidden away, something 'fearful': compassion. Or something even more to abjure: hope...
...League discriminates against athletes, by applying to them--and only them--excessively rigid admission standards. The current admissions policy fails to predict college performance and sometimes holds back capable students. It simply allows the Ivy League to maintain the false appearance of strict academic standards for athletes on the way in, despite the concessions the schools give to athletes who do not uphold the academic end of the bargain once they are here...