Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Museum of Comparative Zoology has received a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to help purchase and maintain a wildlife research center in Concord...
...editorial extolling the virtues of the liberal monarchies of Great Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands that landed A.B.C. in the soup. Instead of following the official attitude that a post-Franco "institutions" of the monarch must Franco regime, maintain the the paper praised Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, chief pretender to the throne, for promoting "a European monarchy, a democratic monarchy, a popular monarchy, a monarchy for all." Such thoughts are apparently still heresy in Franco's liberalized Spain...
Schools unable to maintain their own capital representatives can now turn instead to a growing number of Washington firms that call themselves "educational consultants." One such com pany was formed recently by Edgar B. Cale, former vice chancellor for the University of Pittsburgh. "We don't contemplate pressuring Congressmen at present," he says. "We'll take what's on the books and that's plenty." Still another educational consultant is Leo S. Tonkin Associates, which recently hired as associate director a young man with a promising future in Washington circles-Luci's fiance Pat Nugent...
...traveler, jostled about and sweating around a crowded airline counter, there is nothing more infuriating than to see another passenger get treatment that includes special decorative tags for his luggage and the right to while away his waiting time in one of the luxurious private lounges that many airlines maintain as part of their VIP "clubs." This becomes even more annoying as the plebeian passenger thinks it all over and realizes that he has paid every penny as much for the flight as the type who is getting VIP favors...
...another to the last man. They know this-hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension. And now it may be expected that the other of the two 'heavenly forces,' eternal Eros, will put forth his strength so as to maintain himself alongside his equally immortal adversary." Adds Norman Brown: "Freud and Marx and Pope John: the thing is to bring them together...