Word: uphold
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PRESIDENT: My job is to uphold the spirit of the Taiwan Relations Act, and I did so - with a very robust package. It appeared to me the Taiwanese were very grateful...
...level employees lack the skills necessary to get better jobs, meaning that their choice to work for Harvard isn’t really voluntary. But the problem with this response is that it offers a positively dismal assessment of people’s ability to improve themselves. To uphold PSLM’s position, it isn’t enough to say that low-level employees are currently unable to command higher wages. Instead, we have to say that they will never be able to do so—that there is something so fundamentally inferior about them that they...
...their housing preferences, so they resign themselves to praying to the River Gods as their only defense against being Quadded. House Committees undergo random annual leadership turnover. And thus, House Masters alone—not decades-old tradition or individual House community—stand as constant pillars that uphold House spirit...
...howls of protest, and rightly so. This page has repeatedly called for student membership in the Administrative Board and a formal student role in the selection of the University president. It does not matter if a subject may have been handled by administrators in the past; the staff should uphold at all times the ability of elected students to discern what their peers want and act capably to effect it -- through formal channels, not "wish lists...
...caught between wanting to uphold the economic opportunities for all our employees and keeping this institution economically viable," said Gomes, who is an outspoken political conservative...