Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Representatives said that simply holding meetings which were orderly and well attended marked a departure from the practice of past student governments, which often struggled to maintain a quorum...
...school. When he does not come home later that afternoon, the movie focuses on the mother's frantic attempt to discover his fate. The police's investigation of Alex's disappearance provides a loose framework for the rest of the film, as detective Al Manetti (Judd Hirsck) tries to maintain momentum despite the scarcity of clues. As time passes and the search deteriorate to the level of psychic and hypnotic investigation, clues begin to appear with a disturbing haphazardness; the mother's house-boy suddenly becomes a major suspect, and the details of his sordid past are suddenly added...
...building-service workers, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (A.F.S.C.M.E.) cheered provisions that 1) require Social Security coverage for nonprofit organizations, which may now elect not to participate, and 2) ban the withdrawal of state and local government employees from the system. These unions maintain that their memberships are better served by Social Security than by private pension plans...
Fiat had only two models in the U.S. anyway, the X1/9 and the flashy Spider 2000, assembled by Coachmakers Bertone and Pininfarina, respectively, but containing many Fiat parts, including the engine. Fiat will no longer sell those cars, although it will maintain its U.S. parts and service network for them as well as for the Strada, which it quietly stopped selling in the U.S. last year...
...Point in the first place and would decide two years later that that wasn't really for her," Coach Hays says of her captain "Shelby is a very independent soul. She is a great combination of people. She can work hard and encourage others to work hard and meanwhile maintain a positive self-image...