Word: maintain
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...look at their own responsibilities. While businesses might previously have looked the other way to turn a quick sale with unauthorized export firms, they now reject those offers out of hand. "We simply don't do business with those companies," says Ganaghan. We just comply with the law and maintain a very low profile says Michael Ferrante, a Corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate Public Relations Specialist with Wang Computers. The nature of corporate compliance is clearly defined by the government: computer companies must first obtain sufficient documentation and verification to know positively...
Mondale has nothing to worry about but the election. Reagan, on the other hand, has to concern himself not only with getting re-elected but with running the country. No wonder he seems tired. Any man who can handle all these problems and still maintain his sense of humor gets my vote...
...Israeli public, which is growing ever more weary of the 29-month occupation. Pressure of a different kind is coming from the U.S. The Peres government clearly expects the Reagan Administration to help Israel out of its economic crisis. But at the same time, the Administration is determined to maintain a neutral role in the southern Lebanon negotiations unless, as State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg puts it, all parties to the dispute "adopt practical, problem-solving approaches." In that vein, this week's Lebanese-Israeli military talks, to be held at U.N. headquarters in the southern Lebanese town...
...slump in the prices they receive for exports of raw materials such as sugar, copper, tin and oil. Observed Board Member Narongchai Akrasanee, a senior vice president of Thailand's Industrial Finance Corp.: "Commodity prices are really miserable." Even so, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have managed to maintain respectable growth rates of 4% or more. The only serious trouble spot is the Philippines, where economic mismanagement by the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos and continuing political unrest in the wake of last year's assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino have plunged the country into a deep recession...
Some historians, most notably Arthur Schlesinger, claim that reform and liberal activism are cyclical. Every 20 to 30 years, they say, there is a flurry of liberal activity, followed by its exhaustion, a regrouping and then another flurry. They maintain that the Reagan administration is simply presiding over a national rest period, like that of Eisenhower, in which the country can regain its national jubilance. The liberals must wait it out until we possess enough confidence to resume our battle with the social diseases...