Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the first movie, Airplane II's plot seems purely incidental: The saga continues as Ted the pilot (Robert Hayes) and Elaine (Julie Hagarty), now a computer operator, maintain their love for one another despite adversity. Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and several others from the original provide the pilots and ground control technicians necessary to foul up the flight and embody running jokes. But placed in the nebulous future, this year's doom-bent flight takes places aboard a computer-controlled lunar shuttle, with a bow to 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...than 100 people have been killed in the past two months in clashes between the militia of Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and the Phalangist-dominated Christian militias known as the Lebanese Forces. Before the latest incident, the government of President Amin Gemayel asked the U.S. to help maintain order by doubling the size of its 1,200-man Marine contingent in .,. Lebanon. The Administra-|tion said it would consider doing so only after the with-Ejdrawal of foreign armies i from Lebanon had begun...
...Harvard has bequeathed to the University Endowment Fund a significant amount of capital. It is my understanding that after twenty-five years a portion is returned to his heirs. Therefore, I am interested in seeing that the Endowment be utilized in a prudent manner and that the University maintain a credible image with the people of Boston. Based on a recent editorial by Will McDonough of the Boston Globe, I am of the opinion that your decision is not in the best interests of either myself, the University, or the community...
John M. Wood of Bedford, N.H. said in a telephone interview that he "was just putting in my two-cents worth" in hopes of influencing Harvard to "maintain a credible image with the community...
...tremendously in his background and his attitudes from what we've seen in the past. [But] I think Mr. Andropov is someone who would challenge the military, given the opportunity. Andropov's statements immediately upon assuming the post of General Secretary were very pro-military, basically saying he would maintain a high war preparedness...