Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideal companions. Trollope wrote of power struggles in Parliament and of intrigue under the topiary at the country house of the Duke of Omnium. In Hard Times Dickens explained what life was like for those who could only peer through the gates-and how much misery it cost to maintain those ducal shrubs in such well-shaved elegance...
Horner added that many alumnae strongly objected to a complete merger and want Radcliffe to maintain some control over the instruction of women...
...Garguilo can do now is to maintain the finance commission on its quixotic road, balancing the almost inevitable budget reductions with the immediate gains of exposing the pols and being publicized herself. Currently, the finance commission is embroiled with Kerrigan--whom Garguilo sees as the finance commission's most determined opponent--in a controversy over an aide of his who allegedly received $300 a week for several months and never reported to work. To complicate the issue, the "no-show", a daughter of a powerful union chief, was paid as a member of White's staff. This arrangement allowed Kerrigan...
...football, center, free safety and quarterback are still largely reserved for whites. In baseball, blacks are concentrated in the outfield. In basketball, some teams with largely black rosters will take on-or keep-a white player or two instead of hiring a more talented black, in an effort to maintain the interest of white crowds...
...Several will be going on TV this week -on an ABC special-but to take individual potshots at parts of the program, not to unveil a comprehensive alternative. Executives of industries that fear they will be hurt by the energy package-oilmen, automakers, utility chiefs -are determined to maintain the statesmanlike tone they have adopted. In public they will continue to praise Carter for calling attention to an urgent problem, while expressing mildly worded disappointment with parts of it. They know that just now there is no way they can compete with Carter in a whom-do-you-trust contest...