Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brian Offutt and Steve Smith: apparently you two do more than "party together," as the council learned Sunday. You also perpetrate disgusting political collusion together. What hypocrites--you, who accuse Melissa Lane and others of "politicizing" the council, use the dirtiest political tricks to maintain your positions in that same council. You are a disgrace to the Harvard Undergraduate Council; I call on both of you to resign immediately. And I challenge you to dispute the assertions made in this letter...
...prosperity preachers build on the Pentecostal faith in here-and-now miracles, citing bits of Scripture to proclaim that God has already guaranteed not only spiritual comfort but material prosperity and physical healing. Believers who pronounce their wishes in true faith have already received them, the preachers maintain, even though it may take time for the miracle to be realized. The shorthand version: "Name it and claim...
...only is Cornell (12-4-3, 9-4-2 ECAC) struggling to maintain the fourth and final home-ice playoff spot, the Red is also riding a nine-game road winning streak...
...games that the freshman is hot, he's the team's best outside shooter and a very important asset to a squad which has struggled offensively this season. But Gielen has yet to maintain the hot hand for more than a couple of games...
Appealing for international aid to help rebuild his ravaged country, Museveni pledged at the outset to maintain Uganda's policy of nonalignment with the super powers and to improve the country's economic development by encouraging a mix of state and private enterprises. The new President also promised a return to parliamentary democracy and a rejection of tribal partisanship. He emphasized that his main goal was to restore respect for human rights, which have been openly abused in Uganda during the past 20 years. Museveni warned that those responsible for past atrocities would be punished...