Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Limit on Reparations. "Reparations should be limited to productive capacity over & above that required to maintain average living standards. Reparations should not be an instrument of revenge. There should be no enslavement. . . . No lasting peace can be built upon revenge, or be founded upon oppression. The strong must adopt enlightened policies at some cost to themselves to achieve a reunited world...
While London and Washington stuck doggedly to a "moderate" policy, Moscow cried out against Anglo-American "inadequacy," called for a "radical solution . . . immediate rupture of diplomatic relations with Franco. . . . As is well known, the Soviet Government . . . does not maintain any relations with Franco Spain." This week Washington and London declined to join Paris in citing Franco before the UNO Security Council as a menace to world peace. But Moscow agreed to go along...
...first ten minutes, however, the outcome seemed far from assured as the Sailors swept to a first-quarter lead of 14 to 9, by virtue of a most remarkable exhibition of marksmanship from all corners of the court. But no team could hope to maintain such an average for long; the Stahlmen took over in the second quarter, and were never headed as they coasted to their third and most conclusive victory over the Chelsea squad...
...suits, topcoats and dress shirts skyrocket in price. You say that competition-not Government regulation-is a factor in preventing inflation. The mentioned apparel is so scarce that it would be asinine to believe that competitors would immediately slash prices when they know they can all get and maintain higher prices. True, after a period of time, supply equaling demand, prices will take care of themselves without regulation. But in the interim the consumer would take a sound beating...
...United States cannot reach and maintain the high level of employment we have set as our goal unless the outlets for our production are larger than they have ever been in peacetime...