Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military has created tensions between the superpowers in order to maintain high levels of military spending, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith told an audience of nearly 150 people at a Humanist Association meeting last night...
...Speakes opened a press briefing the next morning by announcing that he would answer no questions about Gaddafi or Libya. With or without any real information, however, enough people were speculating about the details of the operation to cause the Administration to feel that it was becoming impossible to maintain tactical surprise. It also became extremely difficult to keep open the option of making no major response to the most recent terror attack. "There's no question we created a bit of a Frankenstein's monster," said an NSC official on Friday. "In a way, I guess, we meant...
...sale to Congress, and now faces an uphill battle to head off expected disapproval of the deal. For his part, * Bush last week stressed Washington's commitment to Saudi Arabia during his eight-day tour of the gulf region. The Vice President repeated the Administration's determination to maintain the free movement of oil and proclaimed that the U.S. does "not want to see Iranian expansion result in a change in the balance of power in this area...
...mean, perhaps, your now-ailing former constituents in that state, which has boomed over the last 10 years thanks to high oil prices? Fact is, Mr. Presidential candidate, that most of America has struggled against rising energy prices to maintain its standard of living--and in New England struggled to keep warm enough to stay alive--as your crude cronies got rich...
Wellesley and Harvard continue to maintain close familial ties: many Harvard students have sisters at Wellesley. However, when the siblings get together, they usually meet in Cambridge. "I have a sister at Wellesley, but I don't know much about the place. I don't go there much; my sister comes to visit here," says Dan Klingensmith...