Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Force $870 in advertising and other expenses to sign up a male secondary-school graduate who scores high on aptitude tests, the cost to all four services for an equally qualified woman is only $150. By 1982, the Pentagon estimates, the recruitment of more women will enable it to maintain its standards of quality and still save about $1 billion annually. The long-term economies could amount to even more because a higher proportion of military women are unmarried and thus require less than men do in medical benefits, housing allowances and other services. Observes Colorado Democrat Patricia Schroeder...
...essential to a man who survives by the quality of his observations of people. Allen's whole shtick, simplified somewhat and ignoring to a degree the growth and development visible in Annie Hall and Interiors, is that of an awkward, clumsy, neurotic, unconfident, hapless little man who manages to maintain a sense of irony and self-awareness throughout his mishaps and setbacks. Even when he gets the woman the self-mocking tone is always present. So why would a documentary-maker not immediately try to find out how much of this image Allen believes to be true of himself...
...told Dean Allison in my letter, I don't think I'm being presumtuous in asking for some help. I simply do not see how it is possible to maintain such isolation from students and purport to be an effective administrator. Such inaccessibility is inexcusable. Incidents of this nature should be brought to the attention of the university community and scrutinized...
Generally they have a strong regard for the family and maintain close kinship ties across the generations at a time when the weakening of traditional U.S. family bonds is a focus of concern. Many come from strongly patriarchal societies and find themselves in conflict with expanding social opportunities for American women. Most intangibly, latinos offer the U.S. an amalgam of buoyancy, sensuousness and flair that many northern peoples find tantalizing or mysterious?and sometimes irritating or threatening...
...British Airways have announced new sections in coach that are designed especially to assure business travelers that, as an American ad says, "you get what you pay for." Following similar three-class plans put in earlier by Continental Airlines and British Caledonian, these airlines will maintain their existing first-class sections but separate the rest of the cabin into two areas: one for full-fare coach passengers, the other in the rear, for the cut-rate folk...