Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital privileges), donations to hospital funds and the house staff, membership in specialty organizations, though tax deductible, cost him $800 a year net. He spends $600 for two weeks of postgraduate education a year. During such absence he has no income, and his office overhead continues. To maintain his medical-school appointment and university-hospital affiliations, he must donate at least 50 teaching hours annually. It is not easy to put a price tag on all this, or on the weekends spent in libraries trying to keep abreast of, perhaps contribute to, medical literature. Is this so enviable an income...
...first planned foray abroad since he took over as Premier 19 months ago. The harsh confrontations that once were Moscow's hallmark from Berlin to the Caribbean no longer occur. Instead the Russians seem anxious to avoid direct conflict with the U.S. Still, the Russian rulers have to maintain anti-imperialist face in order to argue convincingly against their Red Chinese ideological rivals. That task fell last week to Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev...
...that the mechanical aids can do after the brain has reached its point of no return, says Dr. Hamlin, is to "maintain the look of life in the face of death." And at frightful cost in both money and emotion. The patient's family, says Harvard's Dr. Robert S. Schwab, suffers cruelly and may have to pay $250 a day for apparatus which is merely sending blood through an organism that is otherwise dead. "When," he asks, "do you pull the plug out and make this expensive equipment available to someone who might live...
...Chinese will not "jump with joy." For 13 years, he writes, the "government of China has devoted its talents to building a wall of misinformation and hatred between the Chinese people and the U.S." Until an effective balance of power is created in Asia, argues Gass, the U.S. must maintain its strength there. "It is perhaps a noble illusion that an honorable peace will come if only we rectify our errors," he concludes. "But it is nevertheless an illusion, and one that can bring death...
Other people maintain that there simply never was enough support to pass a home rule bill in the House. Certainly it must have been apparent to those who voted for the Sisk version that the wide divergence between it and the Senate bill would preclude final passage of any bill at all during that session of Congress...