Word: maintain
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...increasing number of scientists maintain that the forests are being slashed and burned at a perilous rate. This is being done both to extend agriculture and, especially in the impoverished developing countries, to use the wood as a fuel. By desiccating and destroying the land, the ruthless felling of trees has still another harmful side effect: it exposes rich topsoil, or humus, and allows the escape of CO2 formerly trapped...
...ability and unblemished record, so that it is hard to pick a front runner. But for President, there seem to be few options. Ted Kennedy appears to be far and away the front runner. Yet he has little or no executive or military experience. His best friends would not maintain that he is of outstanding intellect or character, and his blemished past is a source of nagging doubt. Is there something wrong with our way of picking a President...
...easiest such points, perhaps, is the Sinai. Israel is prepared to let nearly all the area revert to Egypt, though it claims the right to maintain two military bases and several civilian settlements there. But even on this relatively simple matter, Sadat insists that he cannot sign a bilateral agreement with Jerusalem. He wants to link a Sinai accord with at least some progress (from the Arab viewpoint) on other fronts. By this he hopes to avoid charges that he is betraying the interests of other Arabs for the sake of a deal with Israel. Sadat thus has been trying...
Israel Although the Israeli military would gradually be phased out, the "right and claim of sovereignty" would remain with Israel. It would be responsible for "security and public order" and thus would continue to maintain some security presence. Supervisory authority would be given to a committee composed of Israel, Jordan and representatives of the area's Palestinian residents, but Israel would retain a veto...
WKRP in Cincinnati (Sept. 18, CBS, 8 p.m.). If this Mary Tyler Moore pro duction can maintain the level of its premiere, it will be the funniest series to hit prime-time TV since The Mary Tyler Moore Show itself. Set at a money-losing radio station that dumps its "elevator music" format for top-40 rock, WKRP is a sitcom dream. Its laughs derive from character rather than contrived gags; its cast is an ensemble of inventive comic actors. The first episode, which establishes the premise and players with dazzling efficiency, is an almost steady howl...