Word: keep
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...represented Yale while only men represented Harvard. Considering that the only concert the Harvard Glee Club presents to the Harvard community as a glee club is the annual fall football concert, I wrote to Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club, on April 30 expressing my wish to keep this year's concert in the traditional style: a performance by tow glee clubs. It was my understanding at the time that the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Women's Chorus were two separate organizations with different conductors. On May 19, Mr. Heath wrote that this proposal was acceptable...
...endless stream of words. But if her words were sometimes tedious, her eye was seldom wrong. In fact, no American expatriate was a shrewder judge of Paris' radical new art. The Stein family, which came to be known as les Americains, made a powerful buying unit; it helped keep some of the best young artists in Europe alive. Gertrude's brother Leo (an aesthete of some pretension, some understanding and much enthusiasm) graduated to modern art via Cezanne, whose work he began to buy in 1904. Her second brother Michael concentrated on the paintings and bronzes of Henri...
Inflation has also been fired up by the growing economic importance of the service trades. Wages in the services tend to keep pace with manufacturing wages, but service productivity does not. It is much harder to increase the output of a fireman or hospital attendant than of a steelworker. In addition, it takes a severe slowdown in the economy to reduce demand for services. A family...
...there any way that an advanced industrial society can keep from constantly ricocheting between the perils of inflation and unemployment? Some scholars think not, at least not without the most draconian action. John Kenneth Galbraith has become the voice of despair. He insists that, given the power of unions and companies to keep a wage-price spiral going even in a dragging economy, inflation can be curbed only by clamping on permanent wage-price controls...
...consumer groups in order to work out equitable and noninflationary guidelines for wage and price behavior. During those six months, the President would ask all businesses to refrain from increasing prices and all labor leaders who are negotiating contracts to take perhaps a 5% interim wage boost and keep the contracts open for final negotiation when the guidelines come out. If even partially accepted, the policy would brake the inflationary momentum. When the guidelines were finally promulgated, the atmosphere would be different. The incomes board or the President himself would have to follow up, rousing public opinion by pointing...