Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future will be based on economic and technical competition rather than military struggle. We need to maintain our scientific edge, and to restore our ability to swiftly to turn discoveries into products. Considering this new kind of threat, our "national defense" will be enhanced by directly encouraging innovation and efficiency in the private domestic sector, and by refocusing our research policy on the prosperity and technological advance of the nation...
...Kennedy School Graham T. Allison as he searches for a way to fund the K-School child care program. As the Dean's Executive Assistant noted, merging with another school's child care center is one option. Given the fact that all the current child care centers maintain extensive waiting lists, we have some concern that this option would aid our parents at the expense of others...
...They want to run and press," Harvard Coach Pete Roby said. "They like to make the game fast, even faster than we want it. We'll need to maintain our composure and handle their press...
...resolution passed with only two "no" votes. An amendment to include language calling on the University "to maintain the highest standards of academic excellence" in its effort to increase faculty diversity failed after brief debate...
...touches other people's self- interest. Why shouldn't it be done on the international level, particularly when we have invented a way of putting an end to the whole experiment, by nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction. That is what the U.N. should be all about. I maintain that my idealism, which is based on some fairly rough experience, is a great deal more realistic than the totally defeatest notion that human beings are born to suffer and kill each other. If one believes that, one should go dig a deep hole and jump into...