Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maintain our nuclear forces at such a level and deploy them in such a way that the Soviet Union could not safely undertake a first strike of its own. Do not drop the nuclear guarantee-made at the formation of NATO after World War II-that the U.S. would respond to a Soviet first strike on Western Europe with a nuclear second strike...
...Giscard government of being duped and then trying to engineer a coverup. Since then, the war of words has escalated. In another TV broadside, Giscard declaimed: "Francois Mitterrand is no longer qualified to represent the country. The present government came to power through lies. It is trying to maintain itself by lies." Disdaining a reply, Mitterrand has preferred, as the pro-government daily Le Monde put it, "to preserve his virginity in this affair while encouraging the government to move to the front with it." Meanwhile, Count de Villegas's chateau outside Brussels was burglarized last week...
...They fear that computerized workshops will bring back the exploitation of turn-of-the-century sweatshops. Says Donald Elisburg, Assistant Labor Secretary for employment standards in the Carter Administration: "Put out of your mind the idea that the sewing machine is somehow different from a computer terminal." Union officials maintain that employers will circumvent minimum-wage and child-labor laws, curtail health benefits and force workers to buy office equipment usually paid for by firms. Last October the A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...other districts the new rules have brought a lot of boos. In Los Angeles, the Hollywood High School football team has lost all but two of its 38 returning varsity players because of poor academic performance. The 21-member band was wiped out when 14 students could not maintain a C average and seven had one or more...
...states at the time the Interior Department offers oil-or gas-drilling leases on the continental shelf, the sloping underwater strip of land at a continent's edge. The Federal Government has traditionally controlled all drilling on the shelf beyond three miles, except off Texas and Florida, which maintain a ten-mile jurisdiction.-The decision, written by Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, involves 29 tracts, totaling 165,000 acres, in the Santa Maria basin off the California coast between Morro Bay and Point Conception, northwest of Santa Barbara. Geologists have estimated there may be as much...