Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treaty is opposed by a coalition of northeastern liberal Democrats, including Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and John Kerry of Massachusetts, and Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina. The Democrats, many with large Irish-American constituencies, maintain that the I.R.A. is waging a legitimate struggle for political freedom. Helms cares little for the I.R.A., but worries that the new treaty would set a precedent, allowing Communist governments to demand the extradition of anti- communist guerrillas...
...president began by tampering with one of Harvard's only democratic institutions in order to exclude an unfriendly opinion. Given the seriousness of the offense, his attempt to maintain his distance from it is not surprising. It was at best a glaring moral lapse, at worst, a crude calculation...
Second, SASC doesn't seem to be able to decide whether it supports divestment more for economic or for moral reasons. It's natural for them to equate Harvard's divestment with practical, positive change in South Africa. It would be difficult to maintain commitment to a cause without the hope of it achieving some great and just result. But when questions are raised concerning the possibility that withdrawal of Harvard's "investment" in South Africa might have only a minimal economic impact on conditions there--or perhaps even a negative one--divestment activists are quick to respond that divestment...
...Friends of Rowing has been able to maintain its high level of amenities by supporting an endowment which sets it "in a class by itself," Bertagna says. He would not comment on why the endowment, which nears $1 million, is so large but adds that "crew is not a blue-collar sport." While that $1 million endowment generates about $30,000 every year for the rowers, Bancroft says, the Friends annually raise another $30,000 or so in contributions...
...series of rude social and economic shocks, from the Viet Nam War to double-digit inflation. Although the sheer size of the generation provided a sense of solidarity and power, it ultimately proved to be the Baby Boomers' bane. There were simply too many of them to maintain in the style to which millions became accustomed as affluent children of the '50s and '60s. Egalitarianism might have been the avowed ethic of their youth, but competition was, and still is, the harsh reality. Many bravely refuse to admit it, yet the fact is that many Baby Boomers do not live...