Word: maintain
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...October. It will have to borrow $1.5 billion from the separate Medicare and disability-insurance funds to send out on time the checks that are to be mailed Nov. 3, the day after the election. The trust fund will need another $7 billion to $11 billion to maintain prompt payments through the first six months of 1983. After that, its borrowing authority expires...
...Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin once again attacked the Reagan plan. He charged that a Jordanian-Palestinian federation would lead to a "mighty flow of modern weapons" into the newly created Palestinian homeland and a "constant war of attrition" against Israel. By contrast, he argued, Israel could maintain its present occupation and anticipate "a lengthy period of peace, be it contractual or factual." Begin seemed as determined as ever to fight any scheme that would remove the occupied territories from Israeli control. With that, he also seemed to be undercutting America's main hope for a lasting peace...
Question 4 would uphold the legislature's decision earlier this year to impose a deposit on beverage containers. Voters should ignore the ridiculous industry-sponsored ads claiming that the measure, by forcing stores to maintain a collection of dirty bottles, will strengthen the Commonwealth population. (Stores have been using pesticides to kill bugs for years, without harmful side effects.) Citizens should instead note the tremendous success that similar laws in other states have had, in decreasing litter and saving energy...
...course, that the GLSA must now take full advantage of the representation within the system that Colantuono's election affords. But it also means that, in this community where 1600 uneducated and often homophobic freshmen arrive each fall, gays must not only formalize those gains swiftly but continue to maintain the visibility level that made them possible in the first place...
...using U.N. money to help South Africa, but most of the world does not control the United Nations. A study prepared by a U.N. group last year criticized the IMF, a special finance agency of the U.N., for giving South Africa a disproportionate amount of aid, used to maintain the apartheid state and finance its arms buildup. The report points out that Nigeria last year made a net contribution to the IMF of nearly $600 million, while South Africa had a net debt of $10 million. Unlike similar U.N. documents, the study was not published and translated as an official...