Word: maintainance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university's dismal record on hiring and promoting female faculty, an imperfection she sees as generic to U.S. universities. With so many fine schools in America, Gray says, there is no way that even Harvard can in everything "be dominant or that in every area it will maintain the same degree of excellence." In fact, she has little patience with the question of who may be No. 1. "The competition is tougher than it was, say, 50 years ago. It doesn't mean Harvard isn't what it used...
...side stand old-liners who teach law as a pure discipline, without value colorations. Attacking them is a rebel cadre under the banner of Critical Legal Studies, a left-leaning doctrine that claims the law is no impartial instrument but serves principally, and in partisan fashion, to maintain the status quo in society. Beneath the spoken issues lies a suspicion that the law school may have become too inbred and is not as concerned with legal ethics as it should...
...regain ground lost earlier to Japanese and other foreign manufacturers, Honda has established a strong U.S. foothold with its shrewd decision in 1977 to build an assembly plant in Marysville, Ohio. Honda's expansion is also a sign that Japanese manufacturers are gearing up their competitive engines to maintain and enlarge their market share...
...maintain stability in an increasingly interdependent world, Hoffman recommended "bargaining instead of posturing." The United States should stop trying to "export inflation or deflation and regularly trying to force other countries to pay the cost," he said...
Heymann defined the ideal of "professionalism" for lawyers as an obligation to maintain scrupulous moral standards for themselves and their colleagues. He called on lawyers to use their profession's unusual freedom and power to apply ethical considerations to practical issues...