Word: maintaining
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Employers and those responsible for the prosperity of large enterprises are reluctant to lose any part of their control. When they discover that the power has passed from them, or when their government has failed to maintain peace they are then ready for experiment. The protocols and other experiments have always grown out of strikes, usually long and exhausting...
Half of the reasoning which prompted the founders of the League of Nations, was correct. England, France, Italy and Japan will never agree to decisions which are made entirely by small nations. They must have enough power to maintain their superiority--not enough to abuse it. How can the lesser States be brought to accept this proposition? How can natural jealousy be banished and universal justice practiced...
...elected President; M. J. Shagan of Brooklyn, New York, Vice-President; and F. E. Bowman of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Secretary-Treasurer, of the Freshman debating club for the present season. A large number were present at the meeting and it is expected that the club will help to maintain the interest in debating and prepare good material for both Freshman and University debating teams in the future...
...prices are so not that the worker has to turn out a larger quantity of work to make a fair wage. This corporation is always clamoring for greater production. If a worker does turn out more than his average production his prices are cut so that he must maintain the greater production up keep the same wage. Such a system greatly encourages increased production...
Recent financial reports of the English government show a considerable surplus over expenditures with which to reduce the national debt. It is for us to do the Fame: to reduce expenditures and to maintain heavy taxation to pay off our debts as they come due. The present recommendations of the Treasury Department bid fair to do this, if the people can only be made to realize the situation...