Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seabrook opponents maintain that the plant is not safe and that the congested beach tourist area around it could not be evacuated safely in case of an accident...
College officials said the rules were also intended to fulfill an academic function because they believed restricting the times during which women could enter the Houses would help maintain peaceful and undistracting study hours...
...Harvard's librarians have been trying to come up with a solution to the space crunch in an attempt to maintain the University's standing as a preeminent research facility...
Advocates of DNA fingerprinting still maintain that the tests are practically foolproof if done properly. "It's not the technology that's being challenged," says John Hicks, a deputy assistant director of the FBI, "but the proficiency of the tester." Unlike traditional fingerprinting, which is done by police experts in official labs, DNA testing is carried out by several private firms that specialize in the technique, and the courts have no direct control over the quality of the work. The tests in the Castro case were performed in 1987 by the oldest and largest company in the business, Lifecodes...
...with China's inflationary pace. A major earns about 250 yuan a month (roughly $67), while a hard-working Shanghai taxi driver can clear 2,000 yuan ($537). Such perks as free housing and food allowances, however, compensate somewhat for the income differential. Deng, moreover, has worked to maintain ties with the leadership by insisting on faster promotions based on skill rather than seniority. Nonetheless, promotion to the top ranks, particularly the political commissars, is still made on the basis of personal and political loyalties...