Word: maintaining
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...centra, relationships of authority that have characterized normal life at the University during his tenure. Carefully and deliberately Bok wants to insure that he and the Corporation alone will have a hand in guiding the University's investment policies. Divestment for him is a test of his ability to maintain control of the University. Caving in to student and alumni pressure would merely set a dangerous precedent...
American Presidents liked to use Harriman as their ambassador plenipotentiary. For Roosevelt, he helped maintain the often uneasy alliance with Stalin and Churchill during World War II. For Truman, he dealt with a cantankerous collection of European nations being rebuilt under the Marshall Plan. For Kennedy, he negotiated the Laos neutrality accords and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. For Johnson, he served as emissary to the Paris peace talks on Viet Nam in 1968. As late as 1976, when Harriman was 84, Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter sent him to Moscow to give assurances to Leonid Brezhnev...
...second article quoted Nicaragua's President--"It is known that the United States has compromised the sovereignty of some neighboring countries of ours, like Honduras and Costa Rica, in order to maintain its aggression against Nicaragua." It went on to note that the World Court has already ordered the United States to stop "arming and training" Contra forces...
...will be a rich smorgasbord with an all-starcast, the intellectual meat of the celebrationthat will maintain the balance of the serious andthe entertaining," said Thomas W. Stephenson '37,350th coordinator. "Someone said to me that if youcould attend all the symposia, it would beequivalent to a Harvard education."PAUL C. MARTIN '52 helped organize the 350thseminars...
...administrators and distinguished alumns in the July 20 New York Times Magazine, many, both within and outside the institution have come to view it as, even more than most universities, merely a highly political (in the worst sense) bureaucracy. In this view, Harvard does not even seriously attempt to maintain high standards of integrity, ideological even-handedness in its faculty hiring, concern for the education and well-being of its students, or social responsibility...