Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislation should have satisfied even the imperious Mrs. Gandhi. It did not. A day after its passage, the government pushed through Parliament a constitutional amendment that gave her the power to maintain the state of emergency indefinitely. More important, the amendment had the effect of removing her case from the jurisdiction of the courts. The parliamentary action, which swept through the Lower House by a vote of 336 to 0 and the Upper House by 161 to 0, was a ludicrous case of overkill. First, Indira rewrote the law under which she had been convicted. Then, once again taking...
...more hospital beds than it needs-a figure some staffers at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare believe is correct. The surplus is costly, particularly in California, where officials say there are some 22,000 excess beds. It costs an average of $30,000 a year to maintain a hospital bed. California's hospital patients and taxpayers are thus paying more than $600 million a year for beds that only the hospitals feel are necessary...
...that line America's roads. But whether citizens leave a week-old baby boy (as once happened) or a cup of steaming coffee in winter (as often happens), it is all illegal. Though a man's home may be his castle and though he must buy and maintain his mailbox, its interior space essentially belongs to Uncle...
...Haldemans still maintain a $185,000 house in the exclusive Hancock Park area of Los Angeles, and have been spending the summer on an even more exclusive island in Newport Beach, Calif., where his wife's family has a New England-style residence. Although he has dropped out of the Big Canyon Country Club, he and his wife occasionally attend private parties. Friends say that Haldeman's ordeal has tapped new strengths and vitality and he is bearing up with Christian Scientist calm. He takes tennis lessons and plucks away at the guitar...
Mounting authoritarianism accompanied the swing leftward. Military men soon occupied half the Cabinet's seats, and COPCON (Continental Operations Command) was established as an elite police force, empowered to do whatever was needed to maintain public order...