Word: maintaining
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Driving Home. The good thing about driving home is that it makes explicit the distance between you and Harvard, whatever that distance may be. If you fly home it's possible to maintain the illusion that Harvard and home are only a few hours apart, in spirit and distance as well as time. You go from anonymous airport to plane to airport, with nothing real in between. The traveling is a state of suspension, and one place rubs up against another...
...platypus has adapted to its environment through a minor evolution of specializations. Its powerful claws allow it to dig its burrow; its thick fur allows it to maintain an aquatic existence; its musculature allows it to scramble over land, paddle through water, and close its eyes while underwater; and its extremely sensitive bill allows it to find food below the surface. Temple-Smith says, "When we were rowing about at night, the sound of the paddles would attract the animals...
...other way that platypuses might maintain territories, he says, is with the complicated array of scents that the male secretes from the area around his neck. The scents could be used to mark trees or rocks to warn off other platypuses...
...proposed, that the boycott should continue, but that a committee of members from each House should be formed independent of the CRR, to review its procedures and propose changes to the faculty and administration. The major advantage of this approach is that the students could, through continuing the boycott, maintain a symbolic rejection of the CRR as presently constituted...
...their otherwise admirable zeal to get control of the budgetary process, the legislators may have cut too deep into defense. Congress is allowing the armed services to do little more than maintain their present strength at a time when the Soviet Union is steadily building up, in many ways alarmingly, its military power. Neither the Senate nor the House adequately debated the strategic implications of the dollars-and-cents decisions that they were making. When next year's budget is prepared, Congress would do well to examine much more thoroughly how the proposed expenditures would influence the vital balance...