Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to keep the schools going, the board hired more than 300 substitute teachers. They were able to conduct most classes in the elementary schools, but could maintain only a skeletal program in the high schools. The outsiders also increased the rancor. Striking teachers showed up every morning to taunt the scabs, and taxpayers came to taunt the strikers. STARVE, one placard advised the teachers, and another jeered: GOODBYE TO YOUR LIFE SAVINGS...
Gaza is another matter. Egypt administered it from 1948 until 1967, when the Israelis captured it, along with the Sinai. Thus Sadat proposed that the Egyptians and the Israelis agree to a time limit for negotiating self-government for Gaza, and that Israel allow the Egyptians to maintain civil order there until local governments have been established. Sadat thought it possible that some Gaza leaders could be persuaded to join the talks. He also believed that if a Gaza settlement could lead to West Bank negotiations, then perhaps Hussein and some of the West Bankers might be willing to participate...
...sometimes unique in the problems of protocol and manners it presents. Example: the nude after-dinner soak in the host's hot tub, as its waters are roiled by a Jacuzzi. Californians manage to maintain a casual dignity rather well; the rules are fairly well established and usually observed. They start from the presumption that not everyone may be inclined to participate. Therefore neither the host nor hostess may be the first to strip, nor may they even suggest it. Rather, convention requires what seems to be a spontaneous impulse on the part of a guest, who ideally should...
IATA spokesmen profess to believe that no orgy of price cutting is ahead, insisting that fares are "at rock bottom now," at least over the North Atlantic; they also maintain that the airlines will not be going "hog wild" in the service area. Yet there are already some welcome signs of movement in this direction. The quality of meals in coach may benefit from competitive pressure. Indeed, Air France has begun giving economy passengers a choice of two main courses plus fruit, cheese and wine, as well as free use of movie earphones...
...hard not to stop, give up and wait for Johnnie and the others. The trail, with 10 miles to go beyond the pass and the pass not even in sight, looked hopelessly endless...I started to wonder about hypothermia (when your body can no longer generate enough heat to maintain body temperature; as heat drains, so does strength and eventually consciousness.) Every few steps I would run through the symptoms and tell myself that, so far, I was fine. My mind's ability to stifle fear and panic came into play. So did the fact that finally, after climbing...