Word: maintaining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...misfortune of meeting up with the most dangerous breed of all: the human. "Pit bulls have gotten this bad reputation because of the type of people who own them," says Humane Society investigator Tim Rickey, who led the July rescue. If these muscular terriers have a flaw, their defenders maintain, it is an excess of devotion. "Their love for humans is why this breed is in trouble," says McBee. "They will take the abuse." Placed with the right companion, their devotion becomes a virtue - as Helen Keller knew. One of her pets was a pit bull...
...thanks to generous alumni donations and penny-pinching on the part of admissions officers, Harvard has been able to maintain a normal international travel schedule, reaching out to students in the U.K., Africa, Turkey, Italy, and Germany, on a tight budget of around $6,000, Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said...
...October 2008 and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but Italian prosecutors say Knox and her boyfriend were accomplices. The prosecution's two main pieces of physical evidence against Knox - small traces of her DNA on a knife and on Kercher's bra clasp - were both disputed: defense lawyers maintained that the clasp wasn't discovered until six weeks after the investigation and that the knife didn't match Kercher's wounds. Knox, meanwhile, continued to maintain her innocence, saying in an impassioned final statement, "I'm no murderer. I am scared of being branded what I am not." (Read...
...year plan, professors would maintain research and advising obligations while on paid sabbatical during the 2010-2011 academic year and retire fully by June...
...year plan, professors would maintain part-time teaching positions for the next two academic years, including two semesters of paid sabbatical, and retire fully by June...