Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next five years, worse problems across the nation may overshadow the plight of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. But the College has weathered many gales over three and a half centuries, and no matter what happens in the world outside, its leaders intend it to survive and maintain its standards. Only right now, they're not sure...
...intimidating assignment. Cut Henry Kissinger's thickly woven, elaborately detailed memoir, White House Years, down from 750,000 words to some 30,000, maintain its sense of narrative and still retain the breadth, texture and philosophical shadings of the original. If that was not challenge enough for Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, he also had to guard his work on the project - the three-part serialization of Kissinger's book that begins this week - as if it were a state secret. "We did not want stories to appear in advance of TIME'S own first excerpt," explains...
...radio broadcast, Dacko, 49, a former schoolteacher who was the first President of the former French colony after independence in 1960, proclaimed the country the Central African Republic again and promised to "return sovereignty to the people." At week's end French troops flew to Bangui to maintain order and perhaps to make sure Bokassa does not return from exile...
...team this year is trying to maintain its position near the top of the college sailing heap. They placed second out of seven at the President's Trophy meet hosted and won by B.U. The next day they snatched third place amid a field of nine at the Captain's Cup behind host Tufts and the B.U. squad...
...Harvard can maintain that kind of play for the middle 65 minutes Saturday against U.Conn, perhaps observers would squint at its forward line towards the end and say, "Hey, isn't that Kevin Hector...