Word: maintain
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...Russians worried? Surely it is not out of concern that the United States might waste valuable national treasure constructing an unworkable weapon. And surely not out of some sentimental desire to maintain outer space as a lake of peace. The reason the Russians are worried should be obvious: they think the Star Wars program might actually work, thereby conferring significant military advantages on the United States. And that is a far cry from the snide put-downs of the concept offered its by the media...
...poor, translated into an enormous presence in the American imagination. A backward agricultural country became the theater of one of the great psychodramas in American history. America absorbed Viet Nam into itself. The war brought into brutal view the discrepancies of social class that Americans have always preferred to maintain as a kind of dirty half-secret. Viet Nam was, for America, essentially a class war. The children of the poor and the lower middle class tended to do the fighting. The children of the privileged tended to get draft deferments to go to college, or to bribe doctors...
Harvard officials maintain that the greyhounds the University and in affiliated hospitals buy are too slow to race and would othearwise be killed...
Congress was fighting mad too, but for a slightly different reason. In announcing that it will maintain auto quotas, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry said it will raise the ceiling 24%, to 2.3 million vehicles a year. Angered Senators responded by voting 92 to 0 for a so-called trade war resolution that calls on Reagan to take all appropriate action to persuade Japan to remove barriers to American products. The only objections before the vote on the nonbinding measure came from legislators who argued that it was not strong enough. Said Montana Democrat Max Baucus: "I want...
...were in essence realistic, and all but two were set in current or recent America. None could be categorized as truly avant-garde. This artistically conservative nature may reflect a rediscovery by playwrights of the values of traditional narrative theater, or it may indicate Actors Theater's eagerness to maintain a high mainstream profile...