Word: maintain
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Even if Mondale winds up losing after all? Yes, says Matthew Flynn, Democratic Party chairman in Wisconsin, where the party is struggling to maintain its shaky hold on the state legislature. "If Mondale picks up even five points, we could hang on to those seats," says Flynn. "If he gets blown out, there's no way we can hold on. So it's terribly important to us how he does relatively as well as absolutely." All this recalculation, however, assumes a reversal of the candidates' histories: Mondale repeatedly failed to sustain momentum during last spring's primary campaign, while Reagan...
...board and among its legal staff, all five members of the Agrava board have accepted the memorandum's main conclusion, but they remain passionately divided over one critical point. Four of the members, along with the board's general counsel, Andres Narvasa, were said to maintain that Chief of Staff General Fabian Ver was involved in at least the coverup. For that reason, they apparently believe that Ver should be charged as an accessory in a report that should raise serious questions about his deeper participation. But Corazon Agrava, the board's chairman, reportedly refused to accept...
...going to spend the better part of two decades searching for The Meaning of Life, it is an excellent idea to maintain your good nature while pursuing the quest. It smooths out the highs (the inevitable lamasery in the Himalayas) and the lows (a stint of hard labor in a French coal mine), and it makes the earnest pilgrim a lot easier for his friends (not to mention the movie audience) to take. Besides, playful self-deflation suits Bill Murray, who only did Ghostbusters in return for a shot at the second screen version of Somerset Maugham's most...
...that is an action against South Africa, not the corporations. And if it is not the role of the University to take some responsibility for its investments, then it is not the role of any corporation to take responsibility for its investments. Is that the precedent Harvard wishes to maintain? Withdrawing from a corporation is as respectable a form of expression as voting on shareholder resolution. If shareholder resolutions don't work adequately, withdrawal is a logical sequitur. Yet Bok characterizes divestment as some kind of revolutionary act of terrorism...
...United States' most important allies in the Western Alliance dissolves suddenly into civil war. Thousands are killed in erstwhile peaceful streets. Hundreds of innocent civilians going about their daily business are murdered in cold blood. The situation gets so bad that the army is forced to intervene to maintain a semblance of order. But the violence continues, even to the extent that there is an attempt to liquidate the entire personnel of the democratically elected government...