Word: maintain
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THOSE OF US who try to maintain faith in human compassion and morality in a crazy and unstable world sometimes face challenges that are hard to counter. Every so often something jars us, something shakes up our sensibilities and makes us question whether this world of ours is all right. Things happen, sometimes, that make us pretty sure that anything we ever held was good about society just might...
...simply, Goldman maintains that the Soviet Union is in trouble at home. Mother Russia cannot adequately feed her people, provide them with the necessary consumer goods and housing, or maintain a tolerable social system. The culprit, the Stalinist economic model. With its emphasis on heavy industry, production quotas and planning. Stalin's model still essentially in use--is redundant, low on quality and inflexible. While it allowed the Soviet Union impressive growth several decades ago, the model just isn't suited to change--hence today's set of problems...
...West is left with only one alternative--a renewed effort at detente. Even if we view the USSR as, to quote President Reagan, "the world's most evil force," a policy of coexistence and commerce can still be productive. At worst, detente will maintain the status quo and keep tensions to an acceptable level. At best, it might even produce some changes in Soviet foreign and domestic policy...
...maintain the status quo, the Administration will probably have to periodically increase the numbers of U.S. military personnel in El Salvador. The greater American military presence in El Salvador, the greater the likelihood of full-fledged intervention. Such a scenario is frighteningly reminiscent of Vietnam...
...Massachusetts Municipal Association, which represents the collective interests of all of the cities and towns, had a similar assessment of the aid's significance. The funding is enough to allow most towns to maintain the status quo by providing, the same level of services as last year, Allan Tosti, the association's fiscal analyst, said earlier this week...