Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such veiled threats can prove to be a two-edged sword. They can maintain interest in the campaign at a high pitch, but they are also likely to infuriate enough Congressmen to wreck all chances of achieving significant legislative gains...
...head off such damaging boosts, Wilson last week maneuvered his bill renewing wage and price controls through its decisive second reading in Commons. But it passed by only a narrow, grudging margin of 35 votes. The fact is, many Britons are simply not convinced that the way to maintain the competitive advantages of devaluation abroad is to hold the line on prices and wages at home...
...SUNDAY, May 26, Merce Cunningham and his dance company completed their triumphant eight-show New York season. Five years ago the controversial, perennially avant-garde Cunningham troupe had to scout hard in order to recruit new members; few dancers cared to dance in stark silence, or worse, struggle to maintain their own difficult movement phrasing against the rhythmic and deafening machinations of a John Cage or David Tudor score...
...longer run, he questions whether his comparatively small (pop. 12 million) country can afford to maintain any military presence at all in Asia unless joined by powerful allies, including the U.S. Despite pressure from his own Cabinet, Gorton has so far refused to commit his government to keep forces in Malaysia after the British withdraw in 1971. "Our traditional concept of forward defense," he said recently, "may have to be abandoned in the not too distant future...
...Toward a Democratic Left, Author Harrington, 40, is recapitulating in dialectical terms his own crablike glide to the right in search of greater political influence. The goal, he said recently, "is to maintain your ideals without becoming irrelevant, without just sitting up on a hilltop spinning theories." To that end, he has joined the Independent Democrats on his home turf in Greenwich Village, thinks now that he made a mistake in not voting for John Kennedy in 1960. "I came to the conclusion," he admitted, "that to call upon the liberals and radicals to leave the Democrats and join...