Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics, and a victory or strong showing could be a stepping stone for an illustrious political career. Bellotti and Weld seem to be running not so much out of love for the particular office, but because while serving as Attorney General they can wield considerable influence and make or maintain valuable connections...
...these cases, the Howes maintain that individual and assessment changes were warranted, and were not imposed for political or personal purposes. Legally, there is no way to determine whether John Howe abused the assessing process unless the state's Corporation and Taxation Department decides to intervene--something it has carefully avoided so far. While it is true that in small towns like Somerville assessors will always wind up judging the value of the property of friends and neighbors, in the Howes' case there has been a clear and consistent pattern of lowering the taxes on personal friends and raising...
...radicals I went to college with in the '60s I'm afraid they're going to accuse me of 'selling out,"' she says. "But the financial world has an important effect on people's lives. I'd like to see more humanistically oriented people go into business and maintain their values...I feel a responsibility to take the skills I've gained at HBS and use them to foment change...
...more than a decade, the United Nations has been trying to end South Africa's control over Namibia (South West Africa). For just as long, South Africa has tried to maintain its jurisdiction over the Venezuela-size territory that it has ruled since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, which the U.N. lifted in 1966. In April, under prodding by the "Big Five" Western powers (the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and West Germany), the South Africans agreed to surrender sovereignty to a new Namibian government elected through U.N. -supervised voting...
...players came to respect Wilkinson as a man. His coaching technique, deceptively simple to describe, is based on convincing each player that he can perform better than he ever has-that he can "maximize" his talents, in Wilkinson's favorite phrase. At the same tune, Wilkinson worked to maintain a spirit of unity and optimism on a losing team. He is succeeding. The Cardinals have come to admire Wilkinson's brand of quiet intensity. Says Offensive Tackle Dan Dierdorf, the team's leader: "He's like a hammer covered with velvet-he leaves no abrasions...