Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...settlement of Clare Dalton's sex discrimination suit against Harvard Law School this week was meant to maintain a hard-won peace, but professors at the school say the ideological battle lines at the root of her case remain...
Dalton was an adherent of Critical Legal Studies, a school of legal thought which is concerned with the effects of culture and society on the law and with its effects on the distribution of wealth and income. Traditional scholars maintain that "crit" does not constitute a legitimate filed of study...
What the crowd perhaps did not expect was that Joel, better known for his mellow pop and light-FM station reputation, would maintain a high-energy, high-impact show. He jammed, he gyrated, he tapdanced, he even stomped on his piano. This Joel planned to have fun despite the hooplah, and he let the whole crowd in on the joke with...
Even during the few slower numbers that Joel interspersed throughout the performance, he managed to maintain the emotionally charged energy of the rest of the show. "Lullaby," off the new album, seems destined to be a classic, and the choice to segue directly from the slower moving ballad to his new single, "A River of Dreams," enabled him to get the crowd swaying to its compulsive beat without loss of momentum...
...bureaucracy at work first-hand, and I also knew from personal experience how easy it is to lose sight of one's ideals working on the Hill, even as an intern. Yet I still wanted to believe that government can work. What possible reasons could I offer myself to maintain my faith in American democracy...