Word: remains
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...University officials are again involved in silencing dissident voices on the Board of Overseers--this time by working to block their election. University officials must remain neutral in this and all succeeding overseers elections. Bok and the administration should be welcoming the democracy of the Board rather than shutting out its different voices...
...Furth, director of Princeton's effort: "We are essentially within a factor of two of break-even now. Seeing that it used to be a factor of a million, we feel extremely optimistic." But it has taken more than 30 years to get there, and plenty of technical problems remain...
Despite the capitalization changes, Hoffmann-La Roche is certain to retain the air of genteel mystery that has long surrounded it. Control will remain in the hands of the Basel-based Sachers. The family, one of Switzerland's leading cultural benefactors, is headed by Maja Sacher, 93, and her second husband Paul, 83. Maja Sacher's first husband, Emanuel Hoffmann, son of the company's founder, died in a car crash in 1932. A prominent patron of modern art, Maja Sacher has endowed Basel's museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores...
Just last year Herbert von Karajan bravely declared, "As long as my arm can hold a baton I will remain, and as long as I live there will be no discussion about a successor." But last week the iron chancellor of the Berlin Philharmonic abruptly ended his distinguished 34-year tenure as conductor-for- life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health...
...some party leaders with commanders who are straggling in the trenches when their divisions are already on the attack. Said he: "Some have already gone so far as to say in effect that democracy and glasnost are very nearly a disaster. The fact that people . . . no longer want to remain silent and insist on making demands is viewed as taking perestroika too far. I for one, comrades, see this as a success of perestroika...