Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social functions help to perpetuate our success on the field by serving as alumni fundraisers, which help defray the costs of coaching, equipment and transportation during the season. In addition, they help us to maintain our cohesion as a team, but obviously far less so than determination and hard work in practice...
Senior faculty members agree with Peterson's assessment of the tenure system, but many add that the current system is designed to maintain high academic standards and should not be changed to accomodate what many call the "good citizenship" activities of junior faculty...
...understand how corporate America works, maintain the authors, one must understand that "the Dinosaur Brain has some very explicit ideas about how companies should be organized and run. Whoever is at the top has all the rights and gets all the goodies. The people at the bottom have to do what the head dinosaur says if they want to stay in the herd...
...authors maintain that there is nothing wrong with a little irrationality now and then, so long as it is kept within certain bounds. Even an occasional show of anger can be a sign of respect, but be sure to pick on someone your own size, or larger. No kicking the pet salamander...
...matter who gets the job in Berlin, Karajan's successor will almost certainly not be offered the life appointment that Karajan enjoyed, although the new man will be expected to maintain the Philharmonic's highly lucrative recording income -- another factor that favors Levine. The New York Philharmonic, for its part, has suffered under Mehta's indifferent performances and low appeal to record buyers. It needs a conductor with fire in the belly like Bernstein; if Billy Martin can be hired by the Yankees five times, can't Lenny come back once? Los Angeles, where the orchestra plays second fiddle...