Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, debates that are played out on the opinion pages often reverberate in the newsroom. Within the Crimson, I have tried to speak to policies and politics that are right (no pun intended) for this campus and for the world. To have kept to myself would have been to maintain the collegial backslapping for which we as an organization lambast others. For this internal criticism, certainly, I have paid somewhat of a price...
...professor chooses to hold section or classes, they should be optional review sessions and not mandatory lectures. In foreign language classes, where participation may be necessary to maintain comprehension, classes should meet on a reduced schedule...
...segregated House system, but there is one crucial difference between this type of segregation and pre-Civil Rights segregation. That difference is one of power. The segregation that revolutionaries of the 1960s sought to put an end to was based on exclusion from resources, motivated by the desire to maintain power over another group. To this end, a significant number of white Americans used their power to deny black people the freedom to choose where they went to school, what jobs they held and where they lived...
That's a balance the most nimble Chinese gymnast would find tough to maintain. The Net, after all, is designed to be open. And if the idea of the Web is to make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look...
...Clinton wanted to have it both ways. He tried to be hip and square at the same time, and in a way he succeeded. At Oxford he protested against the Vietnam War (cool) and wrote a letter thanking a ROTC commander for helping him to avoid the draft and "maintain my political viability" (square). He's a President who wears blue jeans and cowboy boots (and looks good in them), revels in intricate discussions of domestic policy and may have an extracurricular love life...