Word: maintains
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Before the founding of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) some decades ago, McCurdy said, the IC4A was the biggest race in the country. UCLA, Stanford and USC were members. Today, some of the major athletic factories still maintain membership--Notre Dame, for example--but now it is mainly an Eastern event...
...glance, the report is organized in proper bureaucratic fashion, and is written in proper sociological jargon. War is not simply an extension of diplomacy, it says, but a society's "principal political stabilizer." It functions as a "generational stabilizer" as well, enabling "the physically deteriorating, older generation to maintain its control of the younger, destroying it if necessary." Because war supplies all these benefits, it is not to be abandoned casually. There must be a "believable life-and-death threat" as a substitute...
...beyond its power or judgment. It is strengthened in this tendency by a widespread assumption that in America the good life has already been achieved in a system of democratic, corporate pluralism. The quest of the ages having been completed, there is nothing more for reason to do than maintain the current structure and make the necessary corrections...
...protect U.S. civilians against attack from an enemy using them. "It is not safe for the U.S. to be ignorant of these powerful weapons," argues Penn Biochemist Knut A. Krieger, who directed the studies. Villard points out that secret anti-missile work is intended to help maintain the nuclear stalemate-which is the present best guarantee for peace...
Morris, it is clear, plans to maintain a civil tone in Harper's. "Ideas are not enough," he says. "The human quality has to be there...