Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charges are kept confidential by the Administrative Board, and MacLeod could not be reached for comment...
...barrage of heavy winds and rain forced the cancellation of the regatta and kept potential customers at home...
...Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia, as well as the globalization of trade, is making it much harder for the stodgy Japanese bureaucrats to maintain the country's advantage. In fact, Japan's mandarins have kept borrowing to prop up the economy with massive public-works projects, running the national debt up to nearly $4 trillion--just about as much as the GDP--by far the worst record in the developed world...
...Gerald M. Levin keeps doubling his bet. In 1989 Levin, then vice chairman, negotiated Time Inc.'s buyout of Warner Communications, an acquisition that enriched Warner's shareholders but not Time Inc.'s. Without making much of a dent in the $11 billion debt incurred by the deal, Levin kept rolling the dice. He sold pieces of the new company into complex partnerships that raised billions but tied up Time Warner's best assets, including Warner Bros. studios and HBO. And instead of paying down the mortgage, Levin went out and bought a couple more cable-television companies, just...
...stepping in where older papers, sensitive to charges of negativity, have let their role as community watchdog slide. New Times Publications, for instance, claims some 700,000 readers of its seven increasingly successful papers in Phoenix, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. New Times's Westword kept dogged watch over the start-up problems at the Denver International Airport last year, while the dailies, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, were less critical. And the Phoenix New Times beat that city's dailies on the corruption scandals of Governor Fife Symington...