Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relationship between eroticism on the screen and individual behavior, Sweden's censorship office reported unequivocally that no normal adult is harmed by seeing intercourse and nude bodies in a motion picture. Psychologists and sociologists in the U.S. have no concrete evidence that erotic material directly stimulates sexual activity. They maintain that the young in particular ?and movie audiences today consist mostly of people under 25?are more sophisticated about sex than the previous generation, and in consequence may tend to be less excited or shocked by nudity or scenes that show copulation. The strongest evidence suggests that total permissiveness...
...mollify opposition to nationalization, the government divided BSC into four geographical regions, each run by an executive of an old private steel company. The regional managers tried to maintain their operations as separate entities and ignored Melchett's efforts to exert centralized control. One manager, for example, announced an ambitious investment plan without even telling Melchett about it. Lately, however, Melchett has got a firm enough grip on BSC to draft a long-range modernization program...
...knows for sure whether they [the South Vietnamese] will be able to maintain the present military balance as U.S. troops are withdrawn," and that the "South Vietnamese are improving" [June 20]. Improving! Do you realize that we sent advisers there in 1950 to improve these people? Nineteen years. Man, that's one generation. If they haven't improved enough by now to cope with their military problems, let's face it, they never will. Let's give them a chance to try. North Viet Nam has the will -let's see if the South Vietnamese...
Double Injustice. Though the Japanese complain about the injustice of textile quotas, they maintain a closed-door policy at home, shutting out considerable amounts of U.S. goods and capital. Two years ago, a committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported that "no other advanced country confronts the foreign investor with the sort of obstacles presented by Japan...
Hofer officially retired last year, but he maintain an office in the basement of the Houghton. In it is a cot, covered with a rug--"late 17th or early 18th century Imperial rug"--where he can rest. He has often slept nights there, where it is cool, when the weather outside has been hot. His office is cluttered with pieces of art, papers, photographs, small figures, and chests which he says are "all full of things...