Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, HRE failed to maintain the flats that Trowbridge and her neighbors occupied out of concern that aging, low-to middle-income apartments might devalue University Place, a $25 million Harvard development, and scare away potential customers...
Last week, in what can only be seen as a cop-out, committee members acquiesced to CUE Chairman Steven E. Ozment's argument that faculty and administrators should maintain some measure of control over the Guide's editorial policy. The committee plans to finalize its recommendations to the Faculty Council next week, and at the moment, the outlook for meaningful reform appears grim...
...University generally attempts to maintain a temperature of 65 to 68 degrees between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., and 55 degrees at night, said Thomas A. Tribble, associate director of utility operations and systems...
...parade of valuables in Washington might suggest, to the uninitiated, that the British can easily afford to maintain them. Some mildew and burst upholstery would lend poignancy to the subliminal cry for help. In any case, a collection is not a house, and the catchpenny title "Treasure Houses"-- suggesting Palladian Fort Knoxes inhabited by Volpones from Debrett's--does not convey the agreeably worn mixture of the grand and the scruffy that often defines their charm. The show embraces conventions of glamour (mainly about Georgian England) that few social historians would accept today. It rehearses the conventional picture of enlightened...
Calvin Stillman sees the situation differently: "These people, including my brother, want the land there for their own use, but they don't have a strong rational basis for forcing Harvard to maintain it. If my father were alive now, he would sympathize with Harvard," he said, referring to what he called his father's belief Black Rock was useless to the University...