Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because the paper is student-run and student-funded, "the university will maintain a hands-off attitude unless life and limb is threatened," a spokesman said yesterday...
Though it is difficult to gauge the depth of disillusionment, a younger Communist dissident notes that "this Leninism business is only a maneuver to avoid a general discussion of party matters. The leaders speak of liberalism, but obedience remains the word. They simply want to maintain their positions. It's a combination of personal ambition and opportunistic policy...
...first Sweden seemed to have found its own unique answer to the slump: ignore it so as to be ready for the expected global economic upturn. While other countries struggled with recession and layoffs, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Olof Palme simply subsidized industry. Companies were paid to maintain full production and full employment, even when they could not sell and had to stockpile their goods in anticipation of a surge in demand. The immediate result was a flush of apparent prosperity, which allowed militant unions to get wage increases of 40% in the two-year period...
...PERHAPS INEVITABLE that a women's college in the shadow of a major men's university could not hope to maintain a separate identity. Radcliffe's history, despite the claims of Where's Radcliffe?, a multi-media show patterened after Where's Boston?, is basically the story of its awkward coexistence with and eventual digestion by a neighboring men's college...
...means of combining conservative philosophy with programs of the welfare state, Will cited tuition tax credits to middle-income families. Not only would this maintain government aid to education, it would also guarantee freedom of choice in education, Will said...