Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrapuntally against this is the inner lament of the thinker, persecuted because of his mental superiority: "Why is everybody always pickin' on me?" Even the intellectual, while inwardly tortured, must maintain a stoic facade, however; and the song offers an austere ethic...
...their invitation. Secretary Dulles, hard pressed, conceded this "imperfection," but found the decision satisfying. His remark failed to comfort the British government, which, often at its own political expense, has supported the American policies of freer trade and economic interdependence. It has managed to stabilize the pound, increase convertability, maintain debt payments, and encourage sales efforts in the dollar area-all objectives which America has been encouraging. Now, with elections approaching, it appears that the United States is abandoning these objectives and is helping the Socialists...
Special police details turned out to maintain order. But they didn't have to work at it. There were no commotions, serious incidents or even any cat-calls--only the usual loud chatter of bubbling teen-agers...
...August 9, 1955, President Eisenhower signed into law a Reserve Rorces Act (RFA-55) that was to "build and maintain powerful civilian reserves immediately capable of effective military service in an emergency." One of the Act's provisions for building up these "powerful" reserves was through the direct enlistment of men for six months active duty followed by longer periods in the Ready Reserve. This six-month soldier is differentiated from draftee and regular Army personnel by the abbreviation, "RFA," after the law that spawned...
...more above the lowest foreign bid. B.L.H.'s bid was 21% higher than English Electric's. ODCM Chief Leo Hoegh got around that by arguing that a contract award to B.L.H. was necessary for clear reasons of "national security." He said the U.S. needed to maintain and keep in good working order the huge machine tools, called "elephant tools," used to build the turbines...