Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have your army, police and security services. Have you been able to stop the terrorists? I might even do better than you have done." In the end, Dayan proposed a "functional partition" of the West Bank in exchange for a nonbelligerency treaty. Under such an agreement, the Israelis would maintain Jewish settlements on the West Bank and would control border security; the Amman government would have jurisdiction over the internal affairs of the Palestinian Arabs. The King was carefully noncommittal...
Other University faculties maintain higher and lower retirement ages for their professors. Business School faculty retire at 65 years of age, and the Law School mandates retirement...
...maintain these far-flung business operations without any sophisticated communications network, the companies employed "agents." bagmen who, for exorbitant fees, greased palms and took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have...
...ever known?") and carefully italicized emphases. He tosses off one-liners (calling, for instance, his Aunt Sylvia "the Benvenuto Cellini of strudel") as if he has a stable of Borscht Belt writers churning out his material. On the psychiatric couch, Kepesh is a regular lie-down comic: "I cannot maintain an erection, Dr. Klinger. I cannot maintain a smile, for that matter...
While most of the 135 players were struggling to maintain respectable scores, Vik was cruising along at two over par after 13 holes before he began to falter. He botched his approach shot to the par five 16th, dumping a wedge into a greenside bunker...