Word: maintain
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Scalise platooned his troops throughout the contest in order to maintain a high energy level...
That may be a point well taken. Even if Deng and his colleagues maintain control at the top, they still face opposition at the regional and local levels. This is all the more so because China is a huge country that tends toward fractiousness at any sign of uncertainty in Peking. "Already," says a foreign diplomat, "we are seeing signs of provinces erecting trade barriers against goods from other areas." Economic improvement varies from region to region, and vested interests have begun to assert themselves. Chongqing, the country's largest city, was criticized last spring by Peking for refusing...
...handbags in 150 stores and 200 franchise outlets worldwide (1982 sales: a reported $300 million). In the U.S., Gucci gewgaws can be found on Fifth Avenue and Rodeo Drive, as well as in department stores like Macy's and Denver Dry Goods. Great care is taken to maintain the quality that has earned the loyalty of such customers as King Juan Carlos of Spain and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's wife Raisa, as well as of those of more modest means who can afford only the occasional status symbol...
Assaults into Nicaragua by anti-Sandinista guerrillas have in the past provoked occasional Nicaraguan shelling of border towns in neighboring Honduras, where the U.S.-backed contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force maintain their base camps. The most recent raid, late last week, drew an unusually heavy Nicaraguan mortar barrage near the town of Arenales; one Honduran soldier was killed and eight others were wounded. In response, the Honduran air force dispatched, for the first time, some of its U.S.-made F-86 jet fighters to attack Nicaraguan positions. The Hondurans said the aircraft fired on Sandinista troop concentrations and shot...
...Crimson's season opens September 13 when the squad takes on Iona. The biggest challenge, however, will be provided by arch-rival Brown, which sunk Harvard last season to maintain its 10-year unbeaten string against the Crimson...