Word: maintain
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Nonetheless, other authorities maintain that the OPEC benchmark will have to come down at least $1.50, particularly since Nigeria is selling on the cheap. The true market price of oil, if all producers exported at will, would be about $20 per bbl., and OPEC must at least partially close the gap between that price and the official $29 level. Said Safer: "My guess is, the OPEC countries will come to their senses." In a speech to a gathering of energy experts in London, Energy Secretary Donald Hodel predicted last week that world prices could fall...
...Senate will elect by secret ballot its next Majority leader--a man who will almost single-handedly control the body's legislative agenda, be its principal spokesman and act as his party's prime troubleshooter on the floor. It is almost certain that the Republican Party will maintain its dominance in the Senate--but the character of the person it chooses to guide it will have a large impact both on inter-party relations and on the policies that come out of the 99th Congress...
Harvard officials maintain that the overall tenure process is no secret, that it is written down in pamphlets and available...
...University needs to maintain secrecy in these matters, officials argue, to avoid hurting candidates' feelings. A person rejected by Harvard should not be subjected to public scorn, they say, and a person who does get tenure should be made to think that the vote was unanimous...
Talbott does not seem to listen to his own very convincing dismissal of the Soviets' principal argument, which contended that British and French nuclear weapons already constituted an allied deterrent. The small arsenals these NATO partners maintain do not threaten the Soviet Union, and in fact the French forces are not even integrated into the NATO force structure; Talbott knows this, but he does not extend the same type of withering criticism to the Soviet rationale as he does to the American...