Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stage II speech, it was obvious that the hope was in vain. Blumenthal phoned Carter and told him that something had to be done immediately to save the dollar.* The two huddled privately that afternoon following a Cabinet meeting. Carter told the Secretary to accelerate the planning but maintain deepest secrecy...
...troops with automatic weapons and tear-gas grenades fired on demonstrating students at Tehran University. The government said there were no deaths, but student groups claimed that 40 or more had been killed. Meanwhile, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was consulting with leaders of the opposition on how to maintain order without jeopardizing the liberalization policies that he initiated last summer...
Around the Hot Stove League, there are those who maintain that the Yankees would not be baseball's champions if New York City's newspapers had been publishing since last August. The town's hyperthyroid sportswriters, so the theory goes, would have stirred up another feud between Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson, or some other duo of dueling Yanks, that might have cost the team its title. The Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Islanders and Rangers will not get the chance to test that hypothesis. If all goes as expected, the city's strike-silenced dailies will...
...known as the "turkey meet" because it used to occur around Thanksgiving, is perhaps the most popular of the 120 formal contests held every year in the U.S. The meet started in 1969 when parachuting was just beginning to take hold in this country, and it has managed to maintain a special appeal while jumping has become a highly organized international sport, one now dominated by Americans. Part of the lure of the meet is simply the Florida weather: only the hardest of the hard core like to jump in northern climes when winter is coming on and the temperature...
...indeed a far cry from the paternalism of Pusey, for Powers is a tough negotiator. But toughness can become an obsession. By trying to maintain a hard-line image, Powers may have forgotten compromise can be as effective a bargaining tool as intimidation. Steiner says, "It would be a major concern to me if we had a bitter relationship with our employees...