Word: maintaining
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Bryn Mawr has a "problem which is typical of many smaller schools, which is that the need to support new programs and maintain old ones outpaces sources of income," Spain said...
...substance of your story, there are some issues on which I should like to comment. First, it is true that there are a number of appointments to be made in the American field, and the Department is fully aware of its responsibility to maintain a high level of scholarship and teaching in this area where we have excelled. Two appointments have been made at the junior faculty level, and I expect senior appointments to be made as well. Secondly, the Harvard colleague whom you quoted was correct when he told you that "The History Department...has tended to want...
Ironically, the ruling coalition will probably shield Israel's top politicians from having to shoulder the blame. Much as Shamir, Peres and Rabin have evaded responsibility and protected one another throughout the Shin Bet and Iran-contra scandals, so they are expected to maintain a united front of professed ignorance about the Pollard operation. "If we had one major party in power, you'd find a scapegoat. But here they all hang together because everybody's implicated," charges Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "You can't scapegoat anyone. That would mean a breakup...
...Texaco's creditors and suppliers were getting jumpy and that the Supreme Court decision might cause the whole situation to spiral out of control. In an affidavit filed in a Texas appeals court, Texaco outlined in detail the pressures it was under. Chase Manhattan had demanded that Texaco maintain new minimum balances in its accounts before the bank would transfer funds to satisfy commercial obligations. Worse, Manufacturers Hanover Trust had canceled a $750 million line of credit...
...Minister Dilson Funaro was at the meeting, trying to win support for new credit to his country. He warned that debtor nations were on a "very short lifeline" and "being pushed to the end of their payment capacity." But Funaro received little encouragement from the G-7 representatives, who maintain that Brazil must reform its economy and curb its rampaging 600% inflation rate...