Word: maintain
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...economic turmoil has put unprecedented pressure on the political system. Thus Mexicans and foreigners alike were paying close attention to last week's elections in Chihuahua, the country's largest state, where the conservative opposition National Action Party (P.A.N.) enjoys a considerable following. At issue: whether the P.R.I. would maintain its stranglehold on power by means fair or foul...
Registry officials said they had to take the new measures for the licenses in order to maintain the credibility of motor vehicle operators licenses, which, they say, have become the common form of identification...
Then, 10,000 or more years ago, man joined forces with nature to maintain the prairie ecosystem. "A spark from an Indian campfire or a bolt of lightning, and the prairie was ablaze," says Northeastern Illinois University Biologist Robert Betz. The fires, Betz explains, were a natural part of the system, favoring the growth of deep-rooted species that could easily survive the repeated conflagrations. A startling variety of plants and flowers flourished under these conditions, their roots creating a dense, interlocking mass that reached as far as twelve feet underground. Between blazes, the prairies teemed with quarry...
...ambitious . plans to end the dangerous Third World debt crisis. His job is to buttress the lending efforts of the sedate World Bank, an institution well known for funding Third World dams, roads and other good works but never before considered a strategic centerpiece of the effort to maintain international financial stability. Conable's intention is clearly to change that. In his first official interview last week, he told TIME, "The World Bank is going to be a catalyst. The bank's priority has got to be economic growth, which is the only real way in the long...
...convinced that behind the Shin Bet controversy is a Labor Party wish to keep Shamir from taking power. Shamir denies any wrongdoing, and he has stubbornly opposed an official inquiry. But at week's end he finally acceded to a limited investigation. All the time Shamir continued to maintain that in this case, the rule of law must bow to Israel's security interests. "Who wants law without security?" the Foreign Minister demanded at a meeting of the right-wing Herut Party. "Only people without sense. The best thing we can do is to remove the affair from the agenda...