Word: maintained
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...very physical landscape of the school simultaneously oozes timelessness and creation. The last four years have seen a spurt of building and renovation. From Annenberg to the Barker Center, Loker Commons to the spanking-new interior of Harvard Law School's Langdell Library, the people who build and maintain Harvard put on quite a show. But Harvard's sheer physical attractiveness is not by itself sufficient in creating value. The value of a Harvard education is not found merely in a stroll through the Yard but in the total experience, and it is in assigning a normative value to this...
This passage captures the ironic, skeptical attitude Lucas tries to maintain toward religious enthusiasms and mania. But he is also emotionally drawn to the subject. He starts research on a book about the Jerusalem Syndrome just as a dramatic instance of it--a plan, no less, to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount--begins to engulf people he knows and eventually him as well...
Similarly, in 1860-61 the U.S. was falling to pieces as one state after the other seceded from the union. During this time of crisis, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln said it is the duty of a President to execute the laws and maintain the existing government, and not entertain any proposition of dissolution or dismemberment. Lincoln's commitment to the union of all states was absolute...
...increasingly--and exasperatingly--scarce during peak travel times, which makes it harder and harder for travelers to redeem their points in the traditional fashion, even though such offerings are still the bread and butter of frequent-travel programs. With the average travel-frequency program costing $25 million to maintain, travel suppliers know they had better offer alternatives to their members, who may be shut out of award redemptions during popular travel seasons. So the trick is to find other ways to meet their obligations...
PREGNANT PAUSE Women undergoing in-vitro fertilization, listen up. Federal agencies are concerned about taking aspirin in combination with the blood thinner heparin to maintain a pregnancy. Worry: risk of hemorrhage...