Word: maintained
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...place to vent their grievances, desires and opinions. With unabashed candor and infinite self-important, they lyrically relate their thoughts on any number of topics, from the "graph" to the stock market. But their most vehemently held opinions all center on the nature of females. Although the four staunchly maintain their fondness for women, they still view the fairer sex as pawns in a male game. Bertie and Co. obviously think that the female should be subjugated to the male in all matters. Their chauvinism is turned to bizarre comic uses, however, when in the climactic moments of the play...
...Daily News is a best-seller newspaper, and its writers, it seems, may be forced by time and iron gloves to revert to cheap tactics to maintain the largest circulation in the country. But when Hamill sits down to write a novel, we might hope that he could revise his relationship with the typewriter. Flesh and Blood, Hamill's latest novel, however, exposes Hamill either in a spell of extreme laziness or an inability, after so many years of banging out copy under deadline, to write thoughtful prose...
...almost by definition, any problem with public education is a big one. No where are the difficulties more acute than in the 25,300 public high schools, junior and senior, in the U.S., which enroll 19 million stu dents and carry a million teachers on their payrolls. To maintain the U.S.'s vast public education establishment, from elementary schools to colleges, taxpayers will spend $144 billion this year ? a 152% increase over the past decade. Those billions add up to more than the country spends for national defense...
...jobs. Negotiating the contract will not be easy: the unskilled production-line workers who belong to the Transport and General Workers Union argue that they ought to be paid as much as the skilled craftsmen represented by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved off the worst. The government, which now owns 95% of Leyland's stock, had passed the word that it would advance no more cash to Leyland if centralized bargaining were rejected-a move that would have meant the company...
Retired Indian General Prem Chand flew from New York City to Lusaka, Zambia, last week as the special representative of United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. His mission: to arrange a U.N. peace-keeping force that would help maintain security in Rhodesia, if and when there is a cease-fire in the five-year-old guerrilla...