Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark to be traded at just about any price that buyers were willing to pay. The IMF cooperated by ignoring the rule that governments must maintain their currencies within a 1% margin above or below the fixed-exchange rates...
...merchants realize that the floating variety show is the best way to maintain the integrity of the land. The fashionable theorists, particularly McLuhan, speak of the unprecedented-rate-of-apocalyptic-change. Yet after the Beatles, Che Guevara, the Civil Rights Act, and even the moon landing, social conscience may be developed so far beyond the power of people to change anything that the fiery political frustration is being mistaken for the reform. And television may be the cardinal source of this paradoxical feeling of unprecedented turmoil throughout an essentially sullen and unmoving nation. Arlen's most moving pages...
...statement's claim that the Faculty must maintain corporate silence to protect the University's freedom "is too craven a suggestion to deserve comment...
Literature or Revelation. The authors faced formidable problems trying to meet the Supreme Court's requirements and at the same time answer serious theological objections. Though the Clark formula is clear, critics have argued that objectivity is difficult to realize in practice. Most religion courses, Jews maintain, are bound to reflect a Christian bias in what is historically a Christian society. Other critics insist that true impartiality, in any event, distorts the real nature of religion as a sense of the ultimate. "Reading the Bible as literature rather than as revelation," says Rabbi Eugene Borowitz of Hebrew Union College...
...cuts may limit "the kinds of things that can be done-it could end up beingvery serious," Bogorad said. He explained that much of the equipment used in natural sciences research is very expensive to purchase and maintain, and that the funds used for these purposes come directly from research grants...