Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices were continuing to drop so fast that even with the subsidy they were losing money. At the same time, the major sugar-user firms, such as the Coca-Cola Co., General Foods Corp. and Nestlé Alimentana, were more than happy with Carter's program because it kept prices low and increased their profits...
...every socialist regime are elaborate programs for improving health care and expanding educational facilities. These states can boast that infant mortality has dropped dramatically, life expectancy is on the rise, and illiteracy is gradually being conquered. In short, state-provided social services are one promise that socialism has kept...
...will be questioned. Neither Washington nor London was prepared to oppose it openly, though in the past both had maintained that any new government in Salisbury would have to include the Patriotic Front if the war was to be ended and if Soviet and Cuban influence was to be kept out of the area...
Besides being addicted to morphine -drug abuse is a serious criminal offense in Belgium-Sister Godfrida was reputed to have carried on sexual relationships simultaneously with a retired missionary priest and with another nun who taught school in Wetteren. Her affairs were kept out of the public eye, but other members of her community knew about them. She and the teaching nun shared an expensively decorated apartment near the hospital. They frequently dined out together in the best restaurants; at other times, merchants recalled, they had expensive cuts of meat, fresh seafood and vintage wines delivered to their apartment. Sister...
...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...