Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1950 Western trade with the Communist orbit has been supervised by the Consultative Group, a 15-nation organization whose working committees COCOM and CHINCOM, maintain lists of items that can be marketed to the Soviet European bloc or to Red China, and in what amounts. The U.S. is prepared to negotiate off the stricter Chinese list such items as its fellow members, particularly Britain and Japan, want to remove. As a quid pro quo, and to help narrow the gap between the two sets of controls, some additional items may be added to the list covering the Soviet European...
...fault. They have not succeeded in showing that their group, containing 329 member schools with a 750,000 enrollment, is the only real national association of students. As such it is the most effective vehicle for expressing student opinion and obtaining student interests. Even though the NSA does not maintain a Washington lobby, it does have considerable influence on national legislation. For example, in the past few years, the NSA has been instrumental in keeping appropriations for Fulbright scholarships at a high level. The NSA, while it represents a generally voteless segment of the population, has repeatedly requested increased...
Postmaster General Summerfield has announced he won't start to restore the service cutbacks until President Eisenhower signs the legislation and Summerfield is certain he will have enough money to maintain normal operations through June 30, the end of the fiscal year...
...week when the British announced their revolutionary new defense posture, Australia decided to pattern its fighting equipment, in size and design, after the U.S. instead of Britain. "In the event of global war," said Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, "it would be difficult for the U.K. to maintain a supply line to Southeast Asia, though the U.S. undoubtedly could do so. Although Australia is wholeheartedly a British nation, this policy is not heresy-it merely recognizes the facts...
During the second half, the Crimson team failed to maintain any real offensive drive, and the attackers missed repeated opportunities to take shots at the Club goal. Faulty passing and poor control of loose balls prevented the varsity from keeping the ball in Lacrosse Club territory long enough to score...