Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REFUSAL of the Massachusetts State Senate's Ways and Means Committee to free Chapter 842, the state-wide rent-control enabling act, for a vote by the Senate is a disgraceful abuse of power in high places. Thousands of tenants depend on the law to maintain stable rents and to prevent unfair evictions by landlords. Without it rents would almost certainly undergo an immediate hike. Keeping the bill in committee at a time when its expiration date is drawing near will kill it, and so silence the voices of tenants and their supporters in the Senate on an issue that...
...future negotiations, the University should make every effort to maintain a low-rent policy so as not to discourage poor married students from coming to Harvard...
...sure was his victory in my mind that I had set up a new scale for measuring political performance; not victory per se, but whether, once victory was achieved, the politician would be able to maintain his humility and compassion, or whether he would succumb to the sycophants and executive trappings--whether he would succumb to the arrogance of power that has destroyed some of our best intentioned presidents. During the campaign, I sometimes wondered if President Bayh would have the strength to remember where he came from, but after viewing Bayh the loser, I know that he could have...
...officers are Moslems, while they make up a disproportionately large share of the rank and file. Khatib wants the Lebanese constitution specifically to acknowledge the Arab character of the state; he also wants a reorganization of the army on a nonconfessional basis. Preoccupied with trying to maintain the cease-fire and stalemated by political bickering, the government paid little attention to Khatib and his growing band of rebels, even though 250 army officers demanded that the government punish the mutineers...
...outgrowth of a deepening unease and a new political awareness among the country's 22,000 officers. The military men are split on what their role should be in the nation's life. Most generals are veterans of the Spanish Civil War. Staunch Franquistas, they want to maintain the boot-clicking discipline of the old regime and may well demand severely repressive measures if social disorder continues. Many of the junior officers have basically been apolitical-docile career men satisfied to lend nominal support to the status quo. But some are beginning to question that function. One reason...