Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Entering the final day of competition, East House continued to maintain a lead over South House in the Radcliffe swimming marathon, but the Margie? was an extremely slim one and a large turnout of swimmers this afternoon could easily reverse the standings...
...negotiations over the eleven demands. Partly to show good faith in the negotiations and partly because state police had been on campus looking for legal violations. BAM issued a call for a moratorium on picketing and disruptions over the weekend, although the strike was still in effect. To maintain the spirit of the strike during the tactical slowdown. BAM sponsored twice-a-day rallies, which included the singing of improvised lyrics...
...maintain the cease-fire on the lines...
...then asked to leave by the back door. At college, a black is awarded an athletic scholarship and then thrust into a situation for which he is culturally as well as academically ill prepared. As with white athletes, teachers will give him passing marks so that he can maintain his eligibility as a player. But once that eligibility is used up, black athletes charge that "it's strictly fend for yourself, black boy." As a result, about half of the black athletes fail to graduate...
...period before being admitted as full-fledged journeymen. Blacks charge, with considerable justice, that the system is often used more as a barrier than as an entranceway. Only 4% of the apprentices in the union-regulated programs are black. Union leaders argue that the apprenticeship system is necessary to maintain a high standard of skill. It takes only 16 months to train an Air Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George Meany's rationale for that: the plumber must learn a greater variety of skills (Meany is a plumber). If blacks pass the rigid written...