Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranks behind the double build-down, or any other coherent new initiative in START. In late September the Scowcroft commission and the Congressmen set about to impose their de-MIRVing and build-down goals on the Administration, and they used the MX as leverage. If the Administration wanted to maintain the support for the MX, they said, the big missile would have to fit into a long-term plan in which it would eventually give way to the single-warhead
Specifically, the new guidelines require companies to maintain a Category 1 (making good progress) or Category 11 (making progress) Sullivan rating...
...Argentine President Raul Alfonsin declared as he signed a 15-point agreement with former President María Estela (Isabelita) Martínez de PerÓn and the leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...
...Tokyo regional taxation bureau last month accused some of the country's 200,000 Buddhist priests of ignoring that admonition. One, it said, had used unreported income to maintain two mistresses. Another presented his wife with a $95,000 mink coat and a diamond ring worth...
...Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prepared for the South African's visit by emphasizing her opposition to apartheid and insisting that her government would maintain the present arms embargo against South Africa. On Saturday, as the two leaders met for lunch, 7,000 demonstrators gathered at London's Trafalgar Square, where they heard Deputy Labor Party Leader Roy Hattersley call Botha's visit "an insult to Britain's black and Asian population." Still, like the other European governments, the British recognized South Africa's importance as a trading partner and as a political power...