Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farther south in the direction of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. What had started two months ago as the latest round in a long struggle between two northern Muslim warlords seeking control of N'Djamena had thus become a test of France's determination to maintain its traditional links with its African allies, and of Libya's attempt to destroy those bonds...
Sooner or later, Japan and the U.S. must face up to the Japanese constitution, which pledges never to maintain "land, sea and air forces." In view of this prohibition, a strong relationship between the U.S. and Japan is the best defense against the Soviet Union...
...P.R.I.'s tactics in Oaxaca may have seemed inconsistent with the government's widely publicized goal of tolerating pluralism, but the government has more than political reasons for trying to maintain control of Oaxaca. Although the P.R.I, has tolerated defeats in the north, Oaxaca is dangerously close to Guatemala, the site of last week's coup and gateway to the Central American quagmire...
Like the nation itself, China's offshore oil deposits are enormous but somewhat mysterious. They are estimated to range in volume between 30 billion and 100 billion bbl., which would make them perhaps the equal of the North Sea field. But for technical and political reasons China cannot maintain production from its existing wells, much less develop these huge crude reserves by itself. Last year China signed a separate joint-development contract with Atlantic Richfield, which has already begun test drilling in a 3,500-sq.-mi. block off the coast of Viet...
...remained in that condition for many months. The wardens refused to let me walk outside the gymnasium. I learned later that they wanted to maintain complete secrecy concerning my re-education in order to win a propaganda victory with all those who, expecting me in a wheelchair, would be astonished to see me walking normally. At that time I was far from imagining that the treatment was, in fact, an anticipation of my release. I was in complete isolation. I thought this was the result of a government decision aimed at putting a stop to the campaign, which I suspected...