Word: maintaining
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Richard Nixon's way is the via media. On almost every issue he has confronted since he took office, the President has steered a middle course - or zigzagged from right to left in an effort to maintain a national equilibrium. Thus in his welfare package, Nixon made a gesture to the left by advocating a minimum annual income and to the right by keeping that subsidy at $1,600 for a family of four, far below the poverty line, and insisting that recipients accept "suitable" employment or vocational training. He suggested tax reforms, but would prefer to maintain...
...driver, the factory worker may, with luck and overtime, gross $9,000 or $10,000 a year, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that it takes $9,977 a year for a family of four to maintain a moderate standard of living in New York City, where the living costs are higher than in any large U.S. city except Honolulu. These people, like the highly skilled members of the craft unions, who can earn more when business is good, tend to live in communities where ethnic ties are still strong. Whether they occupy one-and two-family row houses...
...constant annoyance, crime is a chronic menace. Lindsay increased the size of the police force and appointed as police commissioner Howard Leary, a highly civilized career cop who has helped guide the department into a relatively smooth relationship with blacks. Lindsay has also designated city hall aides to maintain close and continuing communications with the city's several Negro and Puerto Rican communities, heading off trouble before it begins. These measures, plus Lindsay's self-appointment as ambassador to the ghettos, have helped keep New York free of major racial violence during the past four years. Yet crime ?black...
...other hand, Wexler wanted his movie to be a statement about media rather than personalities. And he does maintain throughout the film an impressive feeling for the kind of electric coldness that media fascination always leaves with...
...summer that the group chose the word "moratorium" to preclude use of the word "strike," which bears unwanted connotations of violence and would be wrongly interpreted as an action against the institutions struck rather than against the war. "It is important to employ actions and rhetoric that will maintain the broadest possible opposition to the war," a group statement reads...