Word: maintain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gang of four, based on continued success as exporters of manufactures, and continuing slow growth and rising unemployment in most of Western Europe. It would also include the prospect of continuing deterioration of economic performance in most of Africa, and of slow growth in Latin America, as these countries maintain their anti-competitive policies such as overvalued exchange rates and low to negative domestic interest rates...
...apologize to those in the Harvard African Students Association who complained that we had "invited too many Afro-Americans and too few Africans" to the Bishop Tutu Luncheon and the Ambassador's dinner. At the same time we disagree with those who maintain that African students were more entitled to join the Bishop at the luncheon because he too is an African. The Bishop is a world leader who belongs to everyone, and we invited several African students to join other groups in celebrating the significance of this life...
...Because rowing is so intense and anarobic, the oarsmen encounter pain, fatigue, and thoughts of doubts as to their capacity to maintain the pace. Meditation can train you not to buy into these thoughts so they won't drain your energy," he adds...
State Department moderates are advocating a giant swap with the Soviets. They would use Star Wars as a bargaining chip, offering to shelve it in return for deep cuts in the Soviets' heavy land-based missiles. They maintain that the U.S. cannot hope to build a defense that would knock out every Soviet missile before it struck the U.S. The Soviets, they fear, would simply rush to build more and more sophisticated missiles to saturate U.S. defenses, pushing the arms race into a volatile new phase. For the moment, the superpowers have informally agreed to practice "interim restraint" while groping...
...another student maintain that Cooperman, who was married and the father of two teen-age daughters, gave studded leather jackets to several of his male Vietnamese students and liked to wrestle with them on his office floor. In his office police found homosexual magazines and photos of Cooperman with provocatively dressed young Asian men. Lam says he once asked Cooperman why he did not simply stop working on behalf of Viet Nam. "I can't," Cooperman reportedly replied. "It's too late and I'm in too deep...