Word: maintaining
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Bearman said graduate students who supported Skocpol did not understand "how the department could deny tenure to someone of her stature and maintain its reputation." He added that he is "not convinced the department can still attract top-rate scholars...
...result of that policy, Harvard's departments maintain, for the most part, excellent faculties. Because quality remains high, Harvard assumes the system must be working. In a sense, that's true. But in thinking that way, the University ignores some serious problems in Harvard's tenure process--deficiencies that demand the faculty's attention...
...Although in the short run, the U.S. deficit gives the Japanese the advantage of selling more, it is not in the Japanese interest to see America an economic cripple, that is, incapable of playing a central role in world politics," he said. "They know that for the U.S. to maintain a substantial defense establishment it must be able to compete in international markets," he added
After studying Summa's hard-to-find financial records, Merrill Lynch estimated that between 1970 and 1976 the corporation had lost $131.7 million. The company, for example, spent about $50 million to maintain the legendary Spruce Goose, the huge, 400,000-lb. wooden flying boat with a 320-ft. wingspan that Hughes had piloted once for a distance of a mile in 1947 and then stored away in a Long Beach, Calif., hangar. Other losses flowed from the hotels that Summa owned but managed haphazardly, a company formed to promote blood-analysis devices, Football Today, and a worldwide fleet...
...with a heart of gold and Gloria is the story of two hard people coming to terms with love and trust. The movie's achievement is that it manages to be almost as effective as it is predictable. Its failure is in pretending to a naturalism it cannot maintain whenever movie actress and movie crew go slumming through the Big Apple and bystanders gawk into the lens, auditioning for stardom in some future Cassavetes film...