Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manager of the $42 million annual school budget faces "the challenge of trying to maintain and improve educational excellence within set resources," said Fantini yesterday...
...tried to maintain a good balance and keep it all in perspective," he says...
...buildup in American defenses before there could be a resumption of bilateral talks. Even then, Perle would be deeply skeptical about the wisdom of any arms control. "This stuff is soporific," he once remarked to Burt. "It puts our society to sleep. It does violence to our ability to maintain adequate defenses." Meese was echoing this sentiment when he said, early
...industrial revolution. When millions of jobs were lost on farms, new ones in industries such as steel and textiles grew up. The expansion of services and the shrinkage of some older occupations now are signs of the same natural growth and aging process. As long as American business can maintain its flexibility and innovative spirit, the number of Americans at work should continue to grow...
Even so, his sober formalism helps maintain the viewer's bearings in the midst of a busy, vertiginous film. He is, on balance, right to let material as original as this speak in its own peculiar and arresting accents. -By Richard Schickel