Word: maintaining
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...insisted he sign a statement claiming he had been treated well. He complied with a flourish: "I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone." This defiant and, under the circumstances, risky display of contempt was typical of the man who invented psychoanalysis. Throughout his life, Freud sought to maintain control. In his final hours, suffering through the last stages of throat cancer in 1939, he told the physician who had accompanied him to England to "make an end of it." The doctor obediently administered enough morphine to induce a coma from which the patient never awakened...
...were initially formed in response to the social and political concerns that emerged during the Vietnam War," says Brad Connors, a member of the Association's Executive Board. "Male students needed passing grades from their T.A.'s to maintain a grade point average high enough to defer the draft. The T.A.'s had to take action around these issues, and the only power vehicle strong enough was unionism," Connors says...
DIVESTMENT has been an issue at Harvard for 20 years. It has become clear that student protest alone will not convince Derek Bok and his associates on the Corporation to rethink their investment policies. As a result, activists have sought to change the process which allows Harvard to maintain such policies in the wake of widespread disapproval from its student body...
...struck sentence, which will be offered as an amendment to the truncated resolution if it is considered by the full council Sunday night, says, "In addition, the University should maintain a position of neutrality toward unionization...
...Asking Harvard to maintain a position of neutrality is like asking the union to maintain a postion of neutrality," Social Committee Co-Chairman Jonathan S. Leff '90 said at the meeting. He was one of the four board members who supported striking the neutrality clause at Wednesday's session...