Word: maintained
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Fifty-five is the lowest passing grade at the Law School. A student is permitted to remain in the school despite falling one-and-a-half courses in a year, but he must maintain an overall average of 58, or 59 if he has failed one full course...
...without social and political revolution in the South. Their goal was to reverse the Black Codes passed under Johnson, establish military government, and give the Negro civil and political rights. But when the Union armies departed, as ultimately they had to, the Negro would not be able to maintain his newly acquired status without an economic base...
...been alleged that John Lithgow is a giraffe. Those who maintain this position malign his genius. He is the best comic actor at Harvard, not for any physical peculiarity, but because his sense of timing, his vocal and muscular control, are more refined than anyone else...
...gringo then an industrialist." At each turn of the negotiations with Special Envoy Martin, Caamaño had new complaints, new demands, new reasons for not negotiating with Imbert's junta. He imperiously demanded his own "corridor" slicing across the U.S. cordon along Avenida San Juan Bosco-to maintain communication with "our forces in the north." Such a passage would nullify the entire U.S. effort to isolate the fighting; the demand was swiftly rejected. Caamaño excused himself so often to huddle secretly with his "advisers" that there was increasing doubt about who actually was the rebel leader...
...future negotiations with North Viet Nam-which puts him close to Johnson's position. And L.B.J. could not have asked for warmer support on the Dominican Republic. While Lippmann has always been wary of far-flung commitments overseas, he considers it perfectly proper for the U.S. to maintain order in its own backyard. "The Dominican Republic lies squarely within the sphere of influence of the U.S., and it is normal for a great power to insist that within its sphere of influence no other great power shall exercise hostile military and political force...