Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates listened in total silence. From many, no doubt, the silence reflected only respect and attention, but it may also have signified irritation from some ? the delegates of countries that maintain concentration camps and practice torture in the name of security. This Pope does not shrink from telling people what they do not want to hear. Said New York Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, a former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.: "I can attest from having watched that the Eastern European and Soviet delegates knew exactly what he was talking about, and for once in that chamber, looked fearful rather...
...still encamped in east Jordan three years after the Six-Day War that had brought them there] remained inactive. Egypt informed us that the Soviets had made a serious effort to get Syria to reconsider its course in Jordan. Israeli forces on the Golan Heights continued to increase. To maintain the pressure, we increased our own readiness further...
...feel we have the God-given right to station thousands of troops and sophisticated armaments in countries surrounding the Soviet Union and to maintain a naval base in Cuba, but we now feel threatened by a few Soviet troops in Cuba. What arrogance! What hypocrisy...
...Meany was unable to maintain the momentum of unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization...
...fear now is that bureaucratic meddling may create distribution bottlenecks and local shortages later in the winter. New York state officials, for example, are concerned that in order to maintain their inventories at levels mandated by the Energy Department, oil companies are holding back shipments to jobbers, distributors and other middlemen, something the oil firms deny...