Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court ordered the districts to desegregate according to the plans drawn up last summer by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The plans assign students to schools under a variety of systems, without regard to race. The court will maintain its jurisdiction over the districts, and no changes in the plans will be allowed until at least next September. Bell also encouraged school-board integration, stating that the court would be more sympathetic to changes requested by bi-racial groups than by white-controlled school boards alone...
...prime factor in school violence these days is racial desegregation. For one thing, it tends to bring the volatility of some ghetto students into the more decorous white community. To compound the difficulties, many school administrators underplay violence out of fear that it will reflect on their ability to maintain control. In Washington, D.C., for example, one elderly woman teacher was kicked in the shins so severely that several operations were required to remove blood clots in her legs. Yet instead of upholding her, the principal labeled her a "troublemaker." Students, realizing that punishment is unlikely, are soon...
Silent, exhaust-free and otherwise kind to the environment. Powered by a simple motor that is 90% efficient. Easy to handle. Inexpensive to maintain...
Only the actors and essential stage hands are allowed in the theater during Anouilh's rehearsals, and everyone involved in an Anouilh production is generally expected to maintain strict silence about the play. On first nights he hides in a corner of the theater. As usual, after the opening of Cher Antoine, he slipped quietly out of the house before the applause began and shuffled off into the night, without taking a curtain call...
...steaming back toward full employment and good growth. For the later 1970s, I am essentially an optimist. We will get back to a tolerable trade-off between unemployment and inflation, and we will again be growing in real terms at 4% a year. If we maintain our commitment to full employment and rapid growth, if we attempt to cope with the great social stresses and strains in our nation, it will be very tough to get the G.N.P. deflator consistently below 2.5%. We have to learn to live with something around 2.5% to 3% inflation. If we get down...