Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first half of the contest was thoroughly dominated by the Crimson, which was able to maintain steady pressure with 15 shots on the UConn goal...
...conductor, James D. Yannatos, reacted angrily to the proposal last night, at first saying, "I think I'd quit and look for a new job." Yannatos subsequently retracted his statement, but continued to maintain that Epps's proposal would represent "an intolerable intrusion on my academic freedom...
...Ford's audit was what he did not spend. The IRS inspectors concluded that in 1972 he used only $225 of his private money for personal expenses?or $4.33 per week. The audit states that when informed of that figure, Ford expressed surprise. As an explanation, his aides maintain that he did not have to spend much. For example, as an important Congressman, he was usually the guest at luncheons; when he was not, he lunched in his office on cottage cheese and grapefruit juice...
Carter, referring to Italy, had said he would "look with sympathy" on a Communist government in NATO, the Georgian retorted that the statement was "deliberate distortion." But Carter did once urge that the U.S. maintain friendly relations with Communist leaders in Italy to avoid driving them irrevocably into the Soviet orbit. When Ford cited Portugal's escape from Communist rule as a success for U.S. foreign policy, Carter replied, correctly, that the U.S. still "stuck to the Portugal dictatorships much longer" than other democracies had done. Among the other exchanges between the candidates...
...Bordeaux are perfumed, full-bodied and richly colored. They should be drinkable in three or four years; further maturing will make them memorable. Most Bordeaux tripled and quadrupled in price in the early 1970s; then their cost was halved. Now they have recovered, and the '76s will probably maintain the current level...