Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...martial-law regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, eager to maintain order as it prepared for the visit of Pope John Paul II next month, was ready for trouble. Hundreds of helmeted riot policemen, each carrying a 24-inch white rubber baton filled with lead balls, had sealed off the area. They were supported by dozens of militia trucks, water cannons and armored personnel carriers. "Disperse!" boomed a shrill voice over a bullhorn. Shortly thereafter, the police attacked the crowd. Militiamen struck indiscriminately, beating an old woman with their sticks and kicking a plump man in work pants who had been...
Banks and savings and loan associations maintain in their defense that it may take several weeks to find out if a check is going to bounce. But critics point out that only 1% of all checks turn out to be no good. They charge that banks are really delaying payment to pad profits...
...Soviets. In its most controversial passage, the second draft also called for a "halt" in the deployment and development of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons; that stance was rejected by conservative bishops and criticized by the Administration because it amounted to an endorsement of a nuclear freeze that would maintain Soviet superiority. The draft of the third version under consideration called for both sides to "curb" their nuclear activities rather than halt them...
...whether it would indeed work for peace in the long run. The document is a classic example of the church's age-old effort to use moral idealism to change the realities of politics. But the steps that the U.S. bishops advocate may make it more difficult to maintain a precarious peace. Facing the same issues, but at closer range, West European bishops have been far less critical of NATO's nuclear strategy...
...commitment is in our own interest, for one thing, and for all practical purposes has existed for 40 years anyway. But going about it this way is madness. The unrest in Europe and the steady worsening of East/West relations supply abundant proof that the U.S. can no longer maintain this surety while acting as if it does not exist. Andropov's remarks last week once again showed that if the talks fail, the West will have only itself to blame. If the Western alliance wants to be completely interdependent, then it should go ahead and do it. The NATO nuclear...