Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parsons and Platt also found that academic freedom and tenure in office are more important than salary in attracting faculty members. However, they found that pressures to maintain competence are high under these conditions...
...United States sent representatives to Warsaw, peace talks might have foundered for any number of reasons; there is no cause to think that Americans and North Vietnamese could have quickly contrived an easy solution. But now, if peace talks fail the administration cannot convincingly maintain a pretense of clean hands and good intentions. The U.S. has yet to make a real effort at peace talks. So far, it hasn't even been bluffing very well...
...grumble. "We have made many investigations into these bars," he said. "How much they sell, how much they earn, who meets there, what they say, and more than they imagine." Among Havana's own 955 bistros, added Castro, with the confident precision of a Caribbean Gallup, "72% maintain an attitude contrary to our revolutionary process, and 66% of their customers are antisocial elements." All other private businesses were ordered either to submit to nationalization or to wind up their affairs and close down. Castro even singled out for condemnation the coleros (line standers), who for a fee take...
...minimize the amount of oxygen necessary to maintain the two-gas atmosphere (44% oxygen, 56% nitrogen) that the student crew breathes, the simulated spacecraft is equipped with a concentrator that pulls exhaled carbon dioxide out of the air. The carbon dioxide is combined in a catalytic reactor with hydrogen and converted into water and methane. An electrolysis system then decomposes the water into oxygen-for breathing-and hydrogen that is used to feed the catalyti c reactor. Reluctant to waste even the squeal of this chemical pig, McDonnell Doug las engineers are working on spacecraft thrusters that can be powered...
...enough to strike down similar jury death-penalty provisions in federal bank-robbery laws and the Atomic Energy Act's national-security section. But it did not affect the constitutionality of capital punishment, currently under broad legal attack. In fact, the court implied that should Congress wish to maintain a death penalty provision in the Lindbergh law, nothing in last week's decision would prevent it from approving legislation enabling judge as well as jury to pass such a sentence. Any such provision would not affect Jackson and his pals, but they do not go free. The court...