Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peking late last week, Chairman Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) announced that the Chinese withdrawal had been completed. Hanoi, however, contended that Chinese troops still occupied sections of one Vietnamese border province. This point was supported by diplomats in the region who felt Peking wanted to maintain control of what had been "disputed territory" along the 735-mile frontier...
...Mobil has lifted its price 10% to 51.9? per gal. and Amoco 11.4% to 50.6? per gal. The service station dealers then normally pass these wholesale increases on to their retail customers. The station owners commonly add 10? or more to the wholesale price in order to maintain their own margins. For many stations, these margins are not enough to keep abreast of inflation. Others can only offset a relatively small profit at the pump through their lucrative automobile service operations...
Unlike U.S. judges, Chinese judges have not been independent, but beholden to the party. A Central Committee communiqué issued in December hints at the debate now going on with this waffling message: "Procuratorial and judicial organizations must maintain their independence as is appropriate...
...Communist Party, at once seeking to improve public morale with fair laws and to maintain its total control, is left awkwardly balanced. Explains another deputy director of the Law Institute, Li Pu-yun: "Everyone in China, including party members, is under the law. But at the same time we don't think the law should be almighty." The compromise may be less than satisfactory, but still it is an improvement over the "lawlessness" Peking praised only a decade...
...thing common to most of the research is the conspicuous wariness of the investigators. The utterly elusive ingredients of the mood they are examining force them to turn away from the phenomenon itself. They prefer to tabulate its incidence and parameters. So, even though they maintain their scientific detachment and method in analyzing data, to collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting...