Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to finding top-notch professors, Thiemann will work to attract good students and maintain the last few years' upsurge in applicants, said Dean of Students Guy V. Martin. The student body has grown 20 percent over the last five years to 450, and applications have jumped 15 percent over the last year, according to Martin...
...that the colorfully named characters from Clue --Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock et al.--remain flat enough to be stored in a box, and that all three endings are unpersuasive. (If choose you must, opt for Ending C.) Writer-Director Jonathan Lynn apparently felt so obliged to maintain the game's conventions, in which players are invited to solve a mystery of the multiple-murders-in-a-mansion variety, that he allowed himself no time for dialogue or business that rises above the mechanical. Such good performers as Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull are driven...
That is assuming, of course, that Marcos will maintain Tolentino on the K.B.L. ticket. Given the peculiar twists and turns of Philippine politics, it is quite possible that the ruling-party slate will change before, or even on, Feb. 7. Under Section 77 of the Omnibus Election Code, which was adopted three weeks ago, any candidate for President or Vice President can withdraw or be disqualified at any time until noon of election day, and any votes cast up to that point will be tallied for the person from the same party who has been named to fill the vacancy...
...same time, however, Mulroney declared that Canada must continue to maintain a cultural identity separate from that of the U.S. "Our system of social programs, our commitment as Canadians to fight regional disparities, our unique cultural identity, our special linguistic character--these are the essence of Canada," he said. "You will have to understand that what we call cultural sovereignty is as vital to our national life as political sovereignty." To make sure that the message got through, and to see that it made news in Quebec as well as in the English-speaking provinces of Canada, Mulroney repeated...
...enough sculpture survives (and is photographed here in careful detail) to convince anyone of its creator's genius. From the exquisite gold and enamel of The Saltcellar of Francis I to the muscular bronze of Perseus, the impression grows: Cellini was better than even he had the nerve to maintain...