Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience, he surmises, British intelligence asked Blake to "sell out" to the Russians, then plant false information (leavened with bits of sound but less valuable data) in hopes of misleading Moscow or gaining enemy information himself. According to Deane, Blake might well have consented to the 1961 trial to maintain the illusion that British authorities thought he was working for the Kremlin, when in fact he remained a loyal British public servant all the while. Thus Blake's escape from Wormwood Scrubs could have been engineered by British intelligence...
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...complex fiscal age. In general, Islamic scholars have agreed that government-sponsored pension systems, social-welfare payments, and the use of bank checks and letters of credit are compatible with tradition. But even though loans at interest are made by all Arab-nation banks, most Islamic scholars still stoutly maintain that this is nothing less than the sin of usury. Others feel that even fire, death and accident insurance are precautions that should not be taken by the good Moslem with faith in the all-merciful Allah...
Soviet journalists, said Ehrenburg, should imitate some of the better practices of the Western press. A correspondent, he said, should "speak the language of the country on which he reports, maintain close contact with all circles of society, keep his ear open to a variety of contradictory opinions, and only then sum up his impressions...
...present open reserve system, which allows reserve books to be used for an unlimited period of time any-where within the library, has made it impossible to obtain reserve books, the girls maintain...