Word: maintain
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...highly desirable shots, others may get too many. Anyone who suffers a dirty wound more than a year after his last tetanus shot is almost certain to receive yet another booster. This is not necessary, judging from detailed laboratory work by Peebles and others. Men and women, they maintain, retain their immunity against tetanus for twelve or more years after those first four shots in childhood, and certainly should not need a booster more often than every ten years. More frequent revaccinations are not only unnecessary but potentially dangerous, say the doctors, since they may provoke allergic reactions against...
...large rise in the labor force, the result of high birth rates in the late 1940s and 1950s. The labor force has been increasing by an average 1.2% a year, but in the 1970s it will jump 1.7% annually. In addition, continued investment in research and new plants should maintain productivity gains at the historic rate of 2.8% a year. Altogether, the gross national product, in terms of current dollars, should come close to $1.25 trillion by 1975 and $1.5 trillion...
There was some skepticism earlier in the season that the lightweight might not be able to maintain their top ranking, but under new coach Steve Gladstone, the Crimson routed every crew it faced and repeated its 1968 victory at the Sprints...
...bronze statuary. It has been replaced by the chrome and Naugahyde of modern design, ranging in taste from contemporary elegance to Las Vegas gaudy. "Restaurants" have replaced dining rooms, and even that venerable man for all needs, the purser, has been redesignated the "hotel manager." Though the QE2 will maintain two classes (first and "standard") on her transatlantic runs, she will cruise the Caribbean as a classless society nine months of the year...
...government to keep the official price of its money within 1% of its stated value. In an effort to hold the line, Denmark and Norway suspended all dealings in foreign money. France, Britain, Italy, Belgium and other countries were forced to dip into their reserves and sell dollars to maintain the official price of their own currencies. Despite all this, in stunning defiance of the world's financial experts, West Germany's political leaders at week's end ruled out any upward revaluation of the mark from its present official level of 25⅓?. "The decision," insisted...