Word: maintain
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...right track. The recent identification of numerous pheromones, or scent signals, in insects and other animals has given odor research new legitimacy. Scientists now know that different organisms use pheromones to gather food, send out sexual cues, mark territory, maintain social pecking orders, sound alarms. Male dogs, for instance, use urine scent to say, in effect: watch out, a tough mutt just passed...
Another potential victim of the tapes is Tennessee's Howard Baker, who played a leading role on the Senate Watergate Committee while managing to maintain close ties with the White House. Insists Ron McMahan, the Senator's press secretary: "Baker knows that his conversations with Nixon will be on the tapes, but he has no problem if they are released...
...majority for passage. The most dramatic idea comes from Australia, until last year a vigorous whaling country. It wants an indefinite ban on all whaling. The Carter Administration, backed only last week by Congress, has submitted a similar suggestion, with one loophole: Eskimos in Alaska would be allowed to maintain subsistence hunting of the endangered bowhead whale under strict quotas (last year's ceiling: 18 kills). If the conference fails to act on the U.S. proposal or a similar one, Congress may toss out a legislative harpoon of its own: a bill sponsored by Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington...
Dutch engineers kept the machine's weight down to 130.5 lbs. by fashioning the body out of plastics. A 50-cc moped motor was tuned for top efficiency. To maintain the required 9.3 m.p.h. average speed, the driver repeatedly accelerated, coasted until the speed dropped, then slowly speeded up again...
...Premier Bülent Ecevit narrowly survived a censure vote by boycotting a session of the lower house, thereby preventing a quorum. With just 209 seats in the 450-member lower house, Ecevit's Republican People's Party depends on the uncertain support of independents to maintain a slim majority. Meanwhile, Ecevit is under constant attack by burly, gladhanding former Premier Süleyman Demirel, whose Justice Party has 177 parliamentary seats but can muster enough support from independents to threaten the government on any important vote...