Word: maintaining
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...Sullivan and Graham maintain that Harvard acquiesced only after several Harvard-educated legislators told the University that if it opposed the bill they would introduce a constitutional amendment to deprive Harvard of its privileged status...
...evidence directly linking the exiles to the April 6 organization's bombing campaign; the arrest orders seemed largely intended to put pressure on his most vocal opponents abroad. Another target may have been the Carter Administration, which has persistently urged Marcos to end martial law, but needs to maintain good relations with him because of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Meanwhile, U.S. officials regard leaders like Aquino as the most promising successors to Marcos...
...publishing). The firm also owns seven newspapers, including the Dallas Times Herald and Long Island's Newsday. But Times Mirror is best known as owner of the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,013,000), which under Publisher Otis Chandler, 52, has gained a reputation for spending lavishly to maintain editorial excellence...
They point out that auto plants in Japan are fully unionized and that Japanese assembly plants in other countries are usually organized. Says Marysville Plant Manager Shige Yoshida: "We are not violating any laws or interfering with our associates' rights. We simply want to maintain the quality of the products...
...this came as one more piece of bad news to U.S. publishers, already whipsawed by inflation and recession. The IRS edict made it more costly to maintain backlists, the reserve of older and usually high-quality books that sell slowly but steadily year after year. To such houses as Knopf, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Scribner's, and Little, Brown, backlists confer a sense of tradition and continuity whose value cannot be entirely tallied in dollars. Says Knopf Editor in Chief Robert Gottlieb: "Our intent is to keep our backlist in print as long as possible and to make those...