Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built in the 19th century. Members of the Soviet advance team had taken great pains to portray Brezhnev as alert and eager for the summit and in no way hampered by ill health. Still, Austrian officials took no chances. They quietly ordered several hospitals throughout the city to keep beds and life-support equipment at the ready in case Brezhnev needed them...
...debate might seem like shadowboxing. Congressional leaders agree that neither Carter's nor Kennedy's plan has an elephant's chance of slipping through a Congress that is pinching pennies and looking forward nervously to the 1980 elections. At minimum, however, the Carter-Kennedy battle will keep the issue alive until the primaries begin. And if Kennedy does decide to square off against Carter, the health plan that sounds better to Democratic voters may have a say in deciding who whips whom...
...theory, L.E.I.U. is a private fraternal association of police officials who keep tabs on organized-crime figures and their associates. But the organization is supported entirely by public funds, including $36,000 from California and $2 million contributed in the past by the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The man behind the founding of the cooperative was former Los Angeles Police Chief William Parker, who feuded with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and its headquarters are in California's department of justice. There L.E.I.U. keeps computerized card files on 4,000 people. For $350 in annual fees, a police...
...studies pile up (154 to date), and federal money pours in, Deep Tunnel just keeps tunneling deeper. Meanwhile, housewives in one Chicago suburb resorted to their own program to keep the sewers from flooding: they covered the inlets with worn-out throw rugs during a downpour. Worked fine...
...doctors who specialize in such disorders, King belongs to a category of insomniacs dubbed "owls." For reasons that still baffle medicine, they are totally out of harmony with the workaday world. Only such tactics as copious infusions of coffee keep them awake when they are forced into a 9 a.m.-to-5 p.m. schedule...