Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rudenstine's role in lobbying Congress to maintain federal funding levels for university research programs, all the more crucial since the departure of Harvard's Washington point-person, Vice-President James H. Row III '73, is a welcome use of Harvard's prestige for a purpose beyond enlarging the endowment...
...group of New England educational leaders, led by Rudenstine and Tufts University President John DiBiaggio, recently traveled to Washington to lobby legislators and White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not increase, current research efforts. The programs are threatened by the federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even...
...fall season. "I like shows that aim high. They're more interesting if they are either outrageously bad or outrageously good, as opposed to competently reliable," he says. This week, in addition to reviewing the new show Once and Again, he writes about personal video recorders, which some analysts maintain may change the way we watch TV and the way television pays for itself...
...local bookstore has a shelf of relationship books that is longer than most relationships, detailing how to find the love you want, how to get married and how to create, and try to maintain, those "positive illusions." In our popular culture, marriage seems to flow naturally from romance--Julia Roberts keeps running off with Richard Gere. Americans love to get married, but half our marriages don't take. Then we switch partners and remarry, with roughly the same odds of success...
...qualify for the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, applicants must maintain a 3.3 grade-point average, write a 500-word essay explaining their career goals and demonstrate economic need. Once selected, students will receive annual funding through graduate school as long as they maintain a cumulative 3.0 grade-point average...