Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carmelite priests a year before Teresa died, specified everything from a strict regimen of fasting to the material from which sandals were to be made. Casaroli's letter declared that the 1581 constitution is the "genuine expression" of Teresa's desires. The great majority of the nuns, however, maintain that the important matter is not such details but the saint's spiritual vision, and that this is best perpetuated by following the simpler rule she wrote in 1567, which was the basis for the experimental charter...
...tough talk does not necessarily make good economic policy. The Administration and some Democrats argue that protectionist barriers cost more to maintain than they are worth. By the estimate of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the voluntary import restraints on Japanese autos that were recently lifted cost U.S. consumers $89,250 a year in higher car prices for each U.S. autoworker's job saved. Furthermore, free-traders argue, a protectionist cocoon would discourage manufacturers from reaching for greater operating efficiencies...
...waters, and the Koreans sent ships and jet fighters to intercept the interlopers. But the tense situation was quickly defused by U.S. diplomacy late on Friday. "We were asked to convey messages between the Chinese and the Koreans," commented a Washington official. Though China and South Korea do not maintain diplomatic relations, they have been edging toward a rapprochement. Neither side, it seems, wanted to allow the mutiny to jeopardize still fragile relations...
...over once for his nation's highest office and would probably have been relegated to a footnote in Soviet history books had Andropov not died after only 15 months in office. The Old Guard in the Kremlin turned to Chernenko, the oldest man ever to become party leader, to maintain the power balance in the leadership until a younger generation was ready to take over. Within two months of assuming power, Chernenko secured the additional titles of President and chairman of the Defense Council. They carried more honor than substance: Chernenko was said to defer to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...that the coalition forces are far from dead. We have lost our biggest stronghold, but we have villages that we control." Western observers estimate that nearly 50,000 Khmer guerrillas have been driven deeper into the interior of Kampuchea. Said Sihanouk: "We will see if the Vietnamese can maintain themselves at our stronghold...