Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cash Crisis. Most gas retailers operate on a close-to-the-knuckle cash flow; they must pay their suppliers on demand, often on a day-to-day basis. Most Midwestern utilities are able to maintain this balance of payments because consumption is way up and the majority of customers are still paying. But in New England, where homeowners typically heat with oil, the cash crisis is becoming lethal. Wholesalers, especially the major oil companies, have screwed down credit limits so tight that dealers in Boston are being given as little as five days to pay for shipments. At the same...
...Going to Camp Edwards is 'the peak,'" Carol Kolson, chief mechanic of NYPUM, says. "The kids really love it." She said that they were encouraged to maintain their own bikes, and help one another. "It's a genuine motivation--for some of them, the first kind of motivation they've ever...
...always, Sadat was eager to maintain good relations with the U.S. While in Cairo, Vance was elaborately thanked for the $500 million aid the U.S. granted Egypt immediately after the January food riots, and for Washington's decision-announced during the Secretary's visit-canceling the transfer to Israel of the devastatingly powerful CBU-72 concussion bombs. But Sadat emphasized that his country's crippled economy needs continued financial support from the U.S. and that his armed forces require new weapons and spare parts, since they are no longer being supplied by the Soviet Union...
...mines and armor. Turkish forces seized the northerly 40% of the island, causing some 200,000 Greek Cypriots to flee to the south. The war also left the eastern flank of NATO in a shambles, with both the Greeks and the Turks blaming their American allies for trying to maintain a measure of neutrality...
...happens, both Denktas and Makarios are anxious to appear conciliatory. Denktas, is under pressure from Ankara, which is concerned about a $1 billion arms aid bill that is held up in the U.S. Congress pending some progress in the Cyprus negotiations. Makarios needs continued international support to maintain his political position in the face of strong gains by the Greek Cypriot Communist Party. "The Greek Cypriots now realize they can't return to the old Cyprus," says a foreign diplomat in Nicosia. "The Turks now understand they can't act like conquerors. The war is over." When...