Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are 351 SS-20's west of the Urals, and Yuri Andropov (you remember, the one who took out a contract on the Pope) claims that this is equality, although there have no new Western missiles installed since 1979. Behind this distorted Soviet view lies the desire to maintain the strategic superiority built up since the late 1970s, and to thereby decouple the U.S. from its European allies. As long as there is a realistc chance that the Soviets can attain this goat, they will reject any equitable compromise out of hand (as they did recently). Only the threatened...
Those, indeed, are legitimate complaints. But focusing on this criticism clouds over a more serious problem raised by the weekend festivities--that the "bosses" continue to latch onto their ironclad control of the party, and are willing to pull almost anything to maintain...
...cocaine glut in South America and production costs have been cut in half, the price of the drug in the U.S. has hardly dropped. Oddly, U.S. authorities and Colombian exporters both have an interest in keeping the price high, the police to discourage use and the crooks to maintain huge profits...
...good race," said heavyweight team Captain Liz Reid, adding, "We had good control of the conditions." Although Brown jumped to an early two-seat lead, the Radcliffe heavies pulled even at the 500-meter mark. Brown sprinted at the 1000-meter mark but couldn't maintain its speed as the Black and White stepped up the pace in the final 30 strokes to vanquish Brown by three seconds...
...system that the only thing you want to do is break off and go smashing through the machinery with the hope that the other gears will come smashing with you. We are all guilty of racism and genocide. Just by living in the U. S. we are helping to maintain the status one that thirty the addresses in Vicmain. All my happinesses are probably at the depense of other's sufferings. The work is like that was it doesn't have to be I don't think...