Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was no way of telling immediately just how much had been accomplished. Indeed, Mayor Eichelberger, though pledging to work with charrette proposals, said that he had no intention of forcing the police to disband the canine corps. In case the point was lost, he said that he would maintain law and order at all costs. But there were slight signs of progress. Within 24 hours, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Charles H. Walters announced the institution of a sensitivity training course in one of York's elementary schools. In response to a complaint from Spanish-speaking citizens, D.A. Fitzkee...
...lesson he doesn't draw is that no society rotting at its roots can expect to maintain the discipline and the civil rights of its armed forces simultaneously. The best cement for any fighting body is belief in the rightness of the fight. The Israelis and the North Vietnamese have shown the power of conviction. It will be some time before the United States can have the luxury of a military free of repression...
With cuts on his thigh and back, Alvord stepped into the blocks for the 220 just 25 minutes later, but he couldn't maintain a narrow lead over Dedmond and George Forsythe, finishing third...
There is little doubt that a tide of militancy is building up in other Caribbean countries as well. Many West Indians maintain that black power against black governments makes little sense. But militants dismiss their present leaders as "Afro-Saxons" and press for revolutionary change. In response, West Indian governments have resorted to a wide range of precautionary measures. The Jamaican government banned the works of Malcolm X. Bermuda canceled a schoolboy sports meet to avoid the danger of a racial incident, and Trinidad reportedly refused stopover privileges to one of her most illustrious native sons, Stokely Carmichael. This...
...reviving the economy, building national self-esteem and cracking class barriers-but they concede that his achievements were more than canceled out by the demonic evils of Nazism. But many of those over 50, who remember the humiliation after World War I and the chaos of the Weimar Republic, maintain that Hitler's positive accomplishments outweigh the negative. The memoirs of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and wartime production czar, are still a bestseller in West Germany eight months after publication (TIME, Sept...