Word: intact
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...World's first black independent nation in 1804. Few countries in the colonial era were willing to deal with a country established on the dead bodies of former slave masters; in recent years the unsavory nature of the Haitian government has tended to keep that isolation intact. As a result, Haiti is a country that has turned in on itself and had little commerce with other nations, one reason for its dismal economic status (annual per capita income...
...that to most urban Americans is unfamiliar: laughter. For although Haitians have lived for almost two centuries with poverty, political turmoil, tyranny and foreign occupation (by the U.S. Marines from 1915 to 1934), they seem to have come through it all with their cheerfulness and self-respect almost miraculously intact...
...they have survived, and their revolution seems intact. It seems only a matter of time before their struggle to build a humane and just society is realized across all Vietnam. The greatest military power in the world has found it impossible to crush a peasant revolution...
...Principle Intact...
...claim this as a ringing victory, but it certainly was not a defeat, as you imply, for the principle of confidentiality, which emerged still intact, in this case at least...