Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly what had Kennedy won? The post of whip,* after all, usually carries with it more drudgery than drama. As a factotum and deputy of the majority leader, the whip must help keep routine business flowing. He must also try to maintain party discipline on key issues, which is frequently a futile mission among independent-minded Senators and committee chairmen who are in some cases more powerful than the nominal party leaders. Once party policy on a given issue is established, the whip should defend it. He must serve as a link between the leadership and the rank and file...
However, we all know (if we believe Galbraith economics) that the national government must maintain a large base of industrial spending in areas that don't compete with the regular supply-and-demand of the consumer so that a small margin of this government spending when increased or cut will be able to maintain the market demand of a fluctuating capitalistic economy like ours...
...more tightly bind their husbands," Reston suggested that the Wickers accompany the Sulzbergers on a month's visit to Europe. According to Talese's rather far-fetched account, Reston was betting that the trip would lay the foundation for a friendship that would eventually enable Wicker to maintain most of the bureau's autonomy...
...basic trouble with European agriculture is that it is fragmented and inefficient. The average European farm is less than 25 acres (v. at least 350 acres in the U.S.), and three out of four plots are too small to maintain a family. To effect a change, Mansholt aims to reduce the number of European farmers within the next decade from 10 million to 5,000,000. He suggests that governments use financial incentives to induce old farmers to retire early and to voluntarily sell their farms to neighbors. That would help to meld tiny plots into bigger, more efficient "modern...
Even so, Walter Heller and other eminent economists maintain that inflation will continue to plague the U.S. for years to come. The task for 1969 is to gain stability without losing much of the very real progress of the past eight years. As former Eisenhower Economist Raymond J. Saulnier notes: "A stabilization program always risks recession...