Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly expect our children to learn how to operate, maintain and develop weapons systems for our security when we are drastically reducing the funds to teach them. Shifting money from defense to education should be seen as enhancing our national strength, not weakening...
...laugh: "There certainly have been times in the past when Bob and I have not seen eye to eye on an issue. We may try to talk each other out of it. I'll say, 'Bob, come off it. When you consider these points, how can you maintain your position on that...
...took office during recessions, the current one is far worse than that of early 1975. Brown inherited a $500 million budget surplus from Reagan. Deukmejian faces a $1.5 billion deficit left by Brown. The deficit was caused mainly by the recession and by the state aid Brown gave to maintain city and county services after the celebrated Proposition 13 of 1978 had curtailed property tax revenues...
...consumers and business. Says Mark Willes, an executive vice president of General Mills who became a spokesman for the school while serving as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: "Rational expectations will become the dominant economic theory in the next ten years." Willes and his colleagues also maintain that economic forecasts are not to be trusted, since people react to policy changes in unpredictable ways...
...brain damage, Clark's confusion probably stems from seizures he suffered one week after the implantation of his artificial heart. Utah doctors have conceded that there may have been an imbalance in the supply of fluids, and salts that Clark received. A proper balance is necessary to maintain normal brain function...