Word: maintaining
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...teacher, more of a person who facilitates communication between departments, helps the group with material flow, all kinds of things. So it's not just a matter of changing one thing but of changing the whole system. Thus, people who are not motivated by any Machiavellian wish to maintain power are threatened by a demand for a total reorganization of their thinking and of their education...
...outstanding scholar and one of the leading law teachers in the country," Bell will "provide leadership and maintain the quality of the law program" at the Oregon Law School, Eugene F. Scoles, chairman of the committee to appoint the dean of the University of Oregon Law School, said yesterday...
...Bigelow Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology, also has a personal interest in the excursion. Three months ago, a team of Chinese broadcasters visited Lesser and his co-workers at the Children's Television Workshop (the organization that created Sesame Street) to learn about American educational television. Eager to maintain the relationship, Lesser set up meetings with members of the Chinese Central Broadcasting Administration in addition to giving formal lectures...
...Charles, like most famed debauches, repented at the end. He converted on his deathbed to Catholicism. His father had died to maintain the Anglican Church, and his successor, his brother James, would lose his throne because of his Catholicism. Charles II, unlike his brother, had realized that his public reception into the Church of Rome would be disastrous for the monarchy, England being rabidly anti-Catholic. Charles has subordinated his own religious convictions to the good of the state, until it was too late for anyone to care. Fraser's description of his deathbed conversion is the most moving chapter...
...second half of the book Fraser comes into her own. Charles II, once crowned King of England, spent money lavishly, on art, theater, palaces, women. Fraser, while delighting in details of court life, argues strenuously that we mustn't blame Charles for spending too much--he did it to maintain the prestige of the monarchy. Her affection for Charles leads her astray here: surely there was no need to have three royal mistresses at once on the royal payroll, and his nephew William, acceding to the throne in equally shaky circumstances, spent in his first year only slightly over half...