Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Rather than increasing the white man's prosperity, the Vietnam war and other forms of "defense" spending have resulted in higher taxes and decreased purchasing power during the past five years. And although he is economically better off than his black counterpart, the white American is still struggling to maintain an adequate income in the face of rising costs and the efforts of corporations to clamp a lid on wage increases. His economic advantage over the black man does not result from any form of mutual antagonism. It results from racist hiring practices and income differentials imposed from above...
...rationale for isolated and secretive action stems from the fact that the saboteurs have read most white Americans out of the "oppressed" category. It is true, they maintain, that whites serving in Vietnam have been unduly victimized, and that "the degradation of [being] forced into lives of anti-human work" has resulted in social and cultural disadvantages. But most whites, they say, are too contented with the economic benefits of the capitalist system to challenge it, and may even be prospering from the wealth which America extracts from Third World peoples...
...addict to function normally and hold a job, something that few heroin users can do. But methadone itself is addictive, which means that those who use it must either be helped to taper off from the synthetic, or continue their habit for the rest of their lives. Methadone advocates maintain that this is no worse than a diabetic's daily use of insulin...
Transfer from Saigon. Bankers maintain that they do not knowingly handle any illegal transactions, but the point can be a fine one. Can a corporation remain formally unaware even though some of its employees, in their official capacity, can hardly avoid knowing of illegal dealings? An estimated $1 billion to $2 billion has been siphoned from Viet Nam into U.S. and foreign banks by profiteering Americans, Vietnamese and their allies. Typically, black marketeers sell Americans their illegally obtained military scrip at discounts of up to 60%. The Americans then take the scrip to a bank and buy travelers' checks...
...could be salvaged. Cities complain that they lack the resources to cope with the problem. Frank S. Kristof, director of the housing-programs division for the New York State Urban Development Corporation, argues that a huge infusion of federal funds is needed, both to rehabilitate the houses and to maintain them. Any such federal program would have to be directed at whole neighborhoods. Instead of building new subsidized public housing -which often "locks people into the cities," as Kristof puts it-federal housing and aid might better be used to make neighborhoods attractive to middle-class families that cities...