Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many scientists are skeptical, if not alarmed, about the Star Wars scheme. Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe argues that even being "as optimistic as you can be within the limits of the laws of physics and geometry," the system is unworkable. Other experts maintain that even if a Star Wars system could be made operational, it would never be 100% effective. Thus a Star Wars capacity might well intensify the arms race, since the Soviets would build more and more ICBMS to ensure that at least some of their missiles penetrated U.S. defenses...
...line between passive overseer and overbearing boss, nudging consensus into shape when he could, urging the White House to change legislative tacks when he could not. The institution is balky, filled with large egos and powerful fiefdoms. The majority leader has to wheedle and plead, wheel and deal, yet maintain an almost presidential gravity...
Washington will maintain its public position of neutrality in the Iraq-Iran conflict; it has had no diplomatic relations with Iran since ties were broken in 1980 during the hostage crisis. At best, recognition of Iraq will create a de facto axis linking Washington, Baghdad and Moscow, which is Iraq's ally, that could help bring Iran to the bargaining table...
...agency said that PBA was guilty of potentially dangerous cost-cutting practices. Among other violations, the FAA contended that the airline falsified safety records, failed to train its pilots properly, postponed aircraft inspections and allowed unqualified mechanics to maintain electrical gear. The emergency grounding gives credence to suspicions that were aroused in September by a tragic error. A propeller-driven PBA plane crash-landed and burned shortly after taking off from a Naples, Fla., airport; one passenger was killed and four others were injured. It was the first fatality in PBA's history. FAA investigators found that a member...
...transfer of the city of Chandigarh (which had been given to Haryana in 1966) to Punjab, and political autonomy for Punjab except for the central government's retainment of control over foreign affairs, defense, currency and communications--all these demands constitute extreme difficulties for a central government that must maintain its neutrality with regard to rights and interests of all the Indian states and strive for the continuation of India as a cohesive, united whole. The failure of negotiations to solve the most important issues should not be so readily attributed to the obstinacy or lack of long-term political...