Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other Prime Ministers after Mrs. Thatcher. They will not all share her enthusiasms nor have the same willingness to bear the expense." The price is indeed considerable. Recapturing the islands cost the government $1.1 billion, plus $1.4 billion in damage and loss of ships and aircraft. Declared Thatcher: "To maintain peace with freedom and justice is always expensive, but less expensive than...
...left wing in general have argued for a policy of unarmed neutrality based on their interpretation of constitutional Article 9 [which renounces war as a sovereign right]. But the interpretation by the Liberal Democratic Party and by a majority of the Japanese people has always been that we can maintain the minimum self-defense capability, that an independent nation is entitled to maintain sufficient armed forces for minimum self-defense. There has been confusion as regards this from the days right after the war until today, so some people have been arguing that we must establish a national political consensus...
...graduate-school programs shrink, many deans and professors worry about the need to foster scholarship. Theodore Ziolkowski, dean of graduate studies at Princeton, argues, "It's extremely important that some of the graduate schools in the U.S. maintain the continuity of all of the academic disciplines, from Sanskrit and esoteric forms of mathematics to 'hot' subjects like computer science and biochemistry." Although enrollment in graduate programs has remained steady at Stanford, Graduate Dean Gerald Lieberman admits, "We are afraid that the best minds will go into fields where they see attractive job opportunities, such as medicine, business...
...introspective "All the Love." She also goes back to her old European melodic style in 'Suspended in Gaffa." The incomprehensible lyrics follow a melody as appealing as "Oh To Be in Love" as they wander about on a waltz tempo. She doesn't really need these flashbacks to maintain her image, though. Despite the superficial changes in rhythm, voice and musical texture, the album has the same surreal spirit as its predecessors. Kate Bush is still alive and well and living in a world only her own music can adequately describe...
...make even a bigger deal out of that," he will say to a reticent oboist, encouraging him to play a phrase more grandly. "Bass drum, diminuendo, a little less all the way through," he will call out to an enthusiastic percussionist. Levine rarely raises his voice, preferring to maintain a relaxed but efficient atmosphere. "He's cool," says Trumpeter Melvyn Broiles. "I've never seen him flip out. He doesn't blow his top." Even at pressure-filled moments, such as the dress rehearsal of the Met's new production of Verdi's Macbeth recently...