Word: maintain
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...month. There are now 30,000 North Vietnamese troops in the South. With the Viet Cong, the "hard hats" from the North form a tough, dedicated fighting force of 250,000. Though American and South Vietnamese troops are outkilling the enemy almost 3 to 1, some guerrilla war experts maintain that the ratio is not nearly high enough to bleed the Reds into retreat out of South Viet...
Although they guaranteed to maintain religious tolerance in Maryland, the state's Roman Catholic founders also guaranteed death for anyone "who shall deny the Holy Trinity." Vestiges of that 1649 paradox have hung on ever since, involving Maryland in more church-state lawsuits than any other state in the Union. Nothing, though, quite beats the current snarl that Attorney General Thomas B. Finan calls "the gravest crisis in the administration of criminal law in my experience...
What inspired Holmes to ask these cases be reviewed? "Student deferments are given in the national interest in order to maintain the educational level of this country. The Ann Arbor sit-in did not contribute to that," explains Holmes...
...bloodless coup. No tanks rumbled through the streets, nobody was arrested or shot, no special patrols were dispatched to maintain the peace. Mobutu simply ordered the government radio station in Leopoldville to broadcast his proclamation, then sent a delegation of staff officers over to the presidential palace to ask Kasavubu to start packing, followed that up with a formal letter offering him a permanent seat in the Congolese Senate. "The race for the top is finished," Mobutu declared. "Our political leaders had engaged in a sterile struggle to grab power without consideration for the welfare of the citizens. Political bank...
...drastic reduction in recent years in the death rate from cholera has resulted mainly from the method that Dr. Phillips' team has devised to maintain the victims' balance of fluids and those all-important electrolytes, the salts of sodium and potassium. But even that Battle is not yet won. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Craig K. Wallace told the International Congress of Pediatrics in Tokyo hat the death rate is almost seven times as high among children under nine as among adults, because their fluid loss is proportionately greater...