Word: maintain
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...week guaranteed salary plus at least 50% of the fees earned for sponsored appearances; the networks were offering $300 and 25%. For the announcers, the industry's proposal of $220 a week was within $5 of the union's demand. AFTRA also was asking networks to maintain announcers solely for their FM stations, a demand that management described as "blatantly featherbedding." By NBC's reckoning, "The effect would be the hiring of three additional men to handle a total of two hours work each week." At any rate, the picketers were not exactly eligible for the welfare...
...since the Berlin Wall went up, East Germany's Communist government has been pressuring the country's Evangelical Church to break its ties with Protestantism in West Germany. Last week, in a remarkable act of defiance against their Red bosses, East German Protestant leaders unanimously voted to maintain the union-and then went on to join with their West German counterparts in electing a new chairman of the All-German Church Council...
...diagnostic facilities grow increasingly complex," Dr. Farnsworth explains, "it becomes more difficult to maintain the warm, friendly relationship between student and doctor...
...election returns were complete, unruly mobs began to surge through the streets of Djibouti, the sun-bleached and impoverished capital of French Somaliland. Then they heard the news: by a majority of 61%, Somaliland's 39,000 voters (out of a population of 125,000) had opted to maintain the country's ties with France, thus defeating a move to independence. Somali tribesmen, who wanted to break away from France, threw up barricades of sidewalk slabs and bedposts, began hurling rocks with the aid of crude slingshots. As their husbands lit oil fires that flashed over the nearby...
Despite his wealth, Floirat lives simply. He and wife Julia maintain a modest Montmartre apartment with a view of Sacré Coeur. Floirat owns a Rolls-Royce, but prefers a Citroën. He summers in the Périgord, where he grows apples and walnuts experimentally to establish new money crops. Floirat has also helped to revive the dying truffle industry. Natives insisted that a virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins...