Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some interesting questions but he provides few satisfactory answers. At first, he examines the problem of sustaining a relationship hindered by a lack of either physical or emotional commitment. Although they erect different defenses, Leo and Todd both fear involvement. After Leo and Celeste consummate their affair, they still maintain their distance from each other. And though Todd and Lynnette say "I love you," they refuse "to be in love." They pass like shadows through each other's lives, melding together but emerging with no signs of having touched...
...maintain a social conscience and oppose oppression, don't stand by and let it happen...
...tragic thing that independent African states cannot maintain the kind of unity that the British were able to build in East Africa. We can save something only if our partners, mainly Kenya, also agree to help. We are all poor Third World countries. We should work together to build strength through unity...
...from American and foreign cars are redesigned by Midas engineers to find the fewest possible shapes necessary for a good replacement fit. Midas backs up such technical finickiness by requiring franchise holders to attend its own M.I.T. (Muffler Institute of Technology) at Palatine, Ill. The franchise holder also must maintain a large supply of parts. Each Midas shop stocks an inventory of mufflers that will fit all American-make cars of the past ten model years...
Until perhaps ten years ago, she had been regularly told (whether she believed it or not) that it was the housewife's duty, happiness and fulfillment to maintain a home for her husband and children. From this, certain reassuring (or oppressive) rules followed. Among them: that monogamy is a state blessed by, and based on, religion; that sex inside marriage is sacred, though sinful outside; that it is largely up to a wife to keep her husband from straying and, indeed, to set the moral and spiritual tone of their union. Today, in addition to all the chores...