Word: maintainance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while other sports long accepted fighting as "part of the game," baseball seemed to maintain its integrity. Players were shy about tipping their hats, for fear of unnecessarily riling their competitors...
Problematic race relations at Harvard make it difficult for a minority student to pursue a normal career here and maintain ties to his ethnic heritage. Several incidents at Harvard, and around the nation's campuses, displayed the simmering tensions that exist between the minorities and the majority on the nation's campuses. A more subtle racism prevails among the more enlightened students. You catch it in a glance, in a whispered comment behind your back, in a loud joke. Such attitudes, which are even more prevalent when you walk outside the ivy-covered walls into the Square, make it difficult...
...charge has a particular sting for Gandhi, who took direct responsibility for Punjab on May 11, after dismissing the moderate Sikh government there because of its failure to maintain order. Despite last week's events, however, the Prime Minister says he is still reluctant to use military force to curb terrorism in Punjab...
Soviet officials maintain that Gorbachev has made a few statements this year indicating that an INF agreement on its own might not be enough to warrant a summit. "A summit must not be just a ceremonial and pompous meeting," says Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's best-known Americanologist. "If we have only an agreement on INF and nothing else, people will not be sure what will happen next in arms control. Therefore perhaps something should be added, perhaps at the summit itself...
...charts and No. 3 pop. Then Saving All My Love hit No. 1 R. and B. and No. 1 pop. It's ironic, but Top 40 stations give more exposure to ballads by certain black artists than to those by most whites. Whitney is helping to maintain the ballad tradition." The third single, How Will I Know, brought her to the teens and to MTV, which black artists have traditionally found tough to crack. And Greatest Love became Whitney's top-selling single. Says Davis: "It put the album in a totally different category...