Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharply with the stereotype of Wagnerian heaviness and turmoil. Unlike his operas, it is modestly scored, an intimate love poem which Wagner never meant to have published. It is, in addition, an immensely difficult piece to perform--the orchestra is required to evoke a tranquil, exalted atmosphere, and then maintain this mood through twenty minutes of technically exacting music...
...negotiating the Aswan agreement I had only one thing to focus on. I didn't want more than to maintain the real magnitude of my victory on the ground. I didn't bother about the Israeli Deversoir pocket because I knew that they were my prisoners on the West Bank [of the Canal] and that their presence there meant their death. On the basis of defining and maintaining the real magnitude of my territorial victory, agreement was reached. Yet I was still in great mental anguish, because all the powers wanted to negate my victory. The United States...
...used to swimming in such icy waters. He abjures possessions and sleeps only an hour or so at a time, waking constantly to continue his work. Only Schlöndorff and Von Trotta, who live in a pleasant walk-up in one of Munich's oldest quarters, maintain what might be regarded as a normal life...
...could no longer maintain the tottering system, so the Nixon Administration abruptly announced that it would stop redeeming dollars for gold. That left U.S. allies stuck with dollars that were worth only what they would bring on the exchange markets. Two formal dollar devaluations followed, and eventually, five years ago this month, fixed exchange rates were dumped. Throughout this process, the U.S. seemed complacent, even proud. John Connally, who was Treasury Secretary when the gold window slammed shut, boasted that he had acquired a reputation as "a sort of bullyboy on the manicured playing fields of international finance." Nixon...
...Radcliffe is going to have to make an effort to win back its student allegiances," Comstock says, adding that Radcliffe could do this by taking stronger stands on such issues as housing, admissions, financial aid, work study, and women's studies. Comstock feels the Radcliffe administration should push to maintain at least one House with a one-to-one female-to-male ratio, and that more female applicants to Harvard-Radcliffe should be recruited...