Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such appointments made, but he has said that he does not plan to become involved. If this spring passes with his words unheeded, Bok may have no choice but to become involved. As the head of the University he has a responsibility to ensure that Harvard's department's maintain their levels of excellence, and to prevent academic disputes from depriving undergraduates of the kind of first-rate education they both expect and deserve...
Although there will be no postseason play for the laxmen this year, the squad still has three games remaining, with a strong chance to maintain its winning record and earn a second-place Ivy League finish. The Crimson begins that drive with its final two home games of the year, New Hampshire Wednesday and a Saturday game with Holy Cross...
...this time she is enrolled at an Episcopal boarding school in Tacoma, and it is not sex but education that engages her most passionate interests. She realizes that her classmates are pleasant, well-to-do girls whose sights are set on making an appropriate marriage: "Our school could not maintain an elite status socially while offering anything like a serious education." But a few dedicated teachers prep the ambitious girl, and she gets her wish. She is admitted to Vassar. McCarthy writes, "I prefer being a Puget Sound type that had gone east to college, as could happen, though rarely...
...Greene's first year, classroom attendance had risen from 56% to 85%. With a measure of order and calm restored, Greene went to work on academics. In 1985 he canceled Redford's football season because 17 of the school's 26 players had failed to maintain a 2.0 grade average. He began a program of accelerated classes for students who wanted them, holding periodic honors assemblies to recognize their achievements, with parents invited...
...last week in a national broadcast, Chun announced that because of the pressing business of preparing for the Olympics, there will be no constitutional revision. This means that a military-backed candidate will almost certainly maintain control of the presidency. Chun explained that the Olympics and the country's "new glorious era of democracy" would be marred by constitutional debates that "split public opinion and waste national energies...