Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. They argue that in the missile age the carrier makes too massive and lumbering a target, and that the U.S. is the only major sea power still building them. Another thorny topic to be discussed is whether the U.S. still needs-and can afford -to maintain 428 major overseas military bases...
...impersonally. After Bynder moved to Colorado, he got his doctor the way most people do-by asking a neighbor for a recommendation. This doctor is roughly 15 years older than Bynder, whereas the first two were close to his own age-and therefore might have been trying to maintain their authority by keeping their distance. Most important, says Bynder, his present Colorado doctor "takes the time and effort to explain things to me. He doesn't talk down to me. So I have confidence...
...maintain that it is dangerous to show too much to people who do not know what they are looking at. I think that a man who is sane as long as he looks at the world through his own eyes is very likely to become a dangerous madman if he takes to looking at the world through telescopes and microscopes...
Devastating Attack. With a pitching staff that has been only occasionally impressive the Twins have had to depend on heavy hitting and alert base running to maintain their league lead. Three players are hitting over .300, and the team's average .272 is the highest in the league...
Atlanta has requested but not received state funds for its four-quarter project. As a result, it is paying more than $1,000,000 beyond its regular $71 million school budget for the summer quarter. School officials maintain nonetheless that the city's fast-growing industries-and thus the city itself-will benefit financially when vacations are spread more evenly over the entire year. Until this year, most working parents took vacations in the summer, when their children were out of school, resulting in summertime business slowdowns and production losses. Another advantage of the summer quarter lies in providing...