Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...screenplay, written by Nora Ephron (Heartburn), traces the love/hate relationship between the two from their first meeting on a cross-country trip after they graduate from college to their marriage 12 years later. Throughout it all, Harry and Sally maintain a hysterical debate on the nature of modern relationships and the ability of each sex to understand the other...
This action shows how much Japan has changed its policies concerning threatened animals. As recently as 1987, the country had partly exempted itself from the CITES treaty in order to maintain imports of 14 endangered species, more than any other nation. Since then, Japan has reduced this number to eleven by agreeing to ban trade in the green sea turtle, musk deer and desert monitor lizard...
Many refugees, however, lack compelling claims to asylum. Western governments maintain that most of the people flooding out of such places as Nicaragua, Viet Nam and Eastern Europe may be tired, hungry and poor but are not victims of persecution. A host of measures aimed at deterring refugees have been introduced. The most obvious -- and no doubt the cruelest -- is deportation. That has been the recent fate of thousands of Central Americans, largely Nicaraguan citizens, who tried to enter the U.S. Washington's repelling measure has had the intended effect: whereas asylum applications in Texas ran at a rate...
Kevin McDevitt of the city assessor's office said that the city prefers to maintain its "flexibility" when negotiating with Harvard, rather than pressing for a stricter agreement...
...defend themselves, the settlers often travel in convoys and maintain radio contact with situation rooms back home. They get army escorts to guard ! Jewish buses in the territories, and have persuaded the government to subsidize car owners who purchase shatterproof windows. However settlers travel, army-issued weapons are always within reach...