Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gruesome realities of the apartheid system are not, per se, the subject of controversy at Harvard. Everyone here, at least in words, opposes apartheid. The questions before the Harvard community are: whether it is appropriate for Harvard to maintain investments in corporations which operate in South Africa; what the impact would be of a move to divest from such corporations; and how to weigh the contribution that action would make to anti-apartheid efforts against the possible financial losses to Harvard from changing its investment policy...
While U.S. corporations cannot bring about significant change, their presence actually strengthens apartheid. For instance, American and European multinationals provide the South African government with valuable political protection, insulating the regime from the threat of credible trade sanctions. As long as American firms maintain substantial South African interests, the Congress and the President will be unable and unwilling to invoke economic sanctions...
Vastola switched mentors after coming to Harvard. In the careful hands of Yugoslavian-born coach Branimir Zivkovic, after faltering somewhat as a sophomore and junior, he has continued to develop. He admits that "until this year it's been an uphill struggle, a battle to maintain consistency." This year Vastola has been virtually unbeatable...
...document would be "offensive to the People's Republic." After a visit to the White House, Church said he did not endorse the draft but simply wanted to get a discussion under way. Church, Javits and Glenn then began talking of a compromise. Their solution: the U.S. "will maintain its capacity to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion" against Taiwan, and will provide the island with "a sufficient self-defense character." This was something less than a defense commitment to Taiwan, but the Carter Administration had originally sought no specific reference to Taiwan...
...invasion of Cambodia did much to demolish Viet Nam's widespread image in the Third World as a brave anticolonial underdog and show it up more as an Oriental 20th century Sparta intent on becoming gendarme and ruler of all it can grasp. One mystery: How do the Vietnamese maintain that martial impulse after more than 30 years of constant warfare? Part of the answer derives from who has the upper hand in the collective leadership that succeeded Ho Chi Minh. The eleven-man Politburo is divided between pragmatists who want to concentrate on internal reconstruction and hard-liners...