Word: upholds
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Schalkwyk has no idea of the commitment level of athletes at this school. This is not high school athletics. Varsity athletes here spend countless hours throughout the year (not just the nine months students are in school) working out in order to uphold a veritable tradition of Harvard: athletic excellence...
Much the same could be said about our government and its approach to protecting the nation. The default mode of the current administration has been to exert only as much effort as is needed to uphold its fragile façade of order and competence. This philosophy might have worked in a world devoid of unpredictable external forces, but it certainly does not work in the world of reality. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks four years ago and Hurricane Katrina today, public grief and outrage catalyzed the reevaluation and eventual reform of malnourished, incompetent national systems...
...through his confirmation hearings, conservatives stepped up pressure on George W. Bush to choose his next Supreme Court nominee more squarely in the strict-constructionist, Antonin Scalia mold. Another Roberts, according to conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, would be "a betrayal." Why? Because Roberts left it unclear whether he would uphold Roe v. Wade, and Schlafly and others want a sure vote to reverse...
...Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices are ideological: they vote to strike either liberal laws or conservative laws, but not both." But when Segal and Spaeth looked at cases decided between 1986 and 1998, they found that "only Rehnquist and [the late Justice Byron] White voted to uphold a majority of liberal and a majority of conservative laws...
...certainly not a day to be wearing black, or long pants, especially on a tennis court. But Spanish sensation Rafael Nadal has a reputation to uphold, not to mention a sponsor. His 3/4 length black Nike pants looked suffocating. But up top, Rafael was wearing a matador-red sleeveless number that looked like a body stocking with the arms cut out. Against the new blue court of the Ashe stadium-okay, I did go to the big court, just to take a look-Nadal stood out like a freshly painted fire hydrant. It was lunch time...