Word: maintain
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...right to work and opposes mechanization to the extent that it usurps this right. Large-scale machinery, he holds, concentrates wealth in the hands of one man who tyrannizes the rest. He favors the small machine; he seeks to keep the individual in control of his tools, to maintain an interdependent love relation between the two, as a cricketer with his bat or Krishna with his flute. Above all, he seeks to liberate the individual from his alienation to the machine and restore morality to the productive process...
...related, and that business has been booming precisely because major corporations have invested heavily to fumigate their systems against bugs. "But," says Baumohl, "it's unlikely that there'll be a reduction in capital expenditure on technology once the Y2K problem has passed - companies are more likely to maintain that investment in order to stay ahead. There may be a shakeout in the NASDAQ in the coming months, but it will probably still outperform the DOW and S&P again next year, and in the foreseeable future...
...proving they're not out of the game. "Clicks-and-mortar has a lot of inherent advantages," says Seema Williams, e-commerce analyst at Forrester Research. "For one thing, an existing, powerful brand presence. It's going to be awful tough for an online retailer to maintain its lead once the clicks-and-mortar people get their act together...
Since the portal automatically sets up links to the homepages for students' classes, Steen said he thinks departments will better maintain their Internet sites...
...strong sense of cultural identity leads to more self-confident, better-adjusted students who can make a better contribution to the Harvard community. Isn't college supposed to expand personal horizons? Although Harvard claims that it is interested in helping students maintain a balance between self and studies, it is ignoring a significant part of the student body by not reaching out more to biracial and multiracial individuals...