Word: maintain
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...invasion of Grenada (pop. 90,000), which involved 6,000 American troops and left 19 Americans dead. President Reagan's "rescue mission" followed a bloody coup in which Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed and extremists seized power. For more than a year afterward, the U.S. maintained a 245- member peacekeeping force on the island. Now the only remaining soldiers are two legal experts, a financial officer and some 25 U.S. Special Forces instructors who will remain until September, training the Grenadian police special service unit in counterinsurgency measures. The 80-man S.S.U. is one of five such units...
...more Walker cases in the future." But no one is suggesting the kind of drastic steps that would protect state secrets as securely as they are held, say, in the Soviet Union. Says John Martin, chief of the Justice Department's Division of Internal Security: "You've got to maintain an open society, or you're no better than your adversaries...
...white-collar offenders sentenced last year, 60% received no prison term. Those sent to jail typically serve one year or less. In contrast, an estimated 70% of defendants convicted of all kinds of felonies go to prison or jail. Prosecutors and critics of the courts maintain that business crime is on the rise because corporate crooks have received such lenient treatment...
...wants to end the war it started 56 months ago, but does not know how to achieve that aim. The Iranian leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, continues to insist that hostilities will not end until the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has fallen. Some of Khomeini's domestic enemies maintain that another reason for the Ayatullah's inflexibility is that he needs the gulf war to hold his increasingly fractious country together...
Each year, as members of the Advisory Committee on Honorary Degrees willing to talk hasten to point out, the University solicits nominations for degrees from all members of the Harvard community. Yet Dershowitz and others maintain the resulting list is largely irrelevant when the committee sits down to pick about 10 recipients from all walks of life. Those critics cite past unpopular recipients as evidence of the arbitrary nature of the system--a favorite example is the Shah of Iran, who got a degree in 1968. The critics also charge that deserving minorities and Jews--like Supreme Court Justice Louis...