Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names; certainly the themes and purposes of the two writers differ. Besides, Mazursky admits his original idea for Tempest came a decade ago, long before he knew the Shakespeare play, when he wanted to make a film about the relationships between family members. There are token attempts to maintain some of the Bard. But two hi-tech lightning storms and exclamations like, "you are a good, hors," from Kalibanos rain the subtle translation Mazursky could have made of Shakespeare's examination of the link between knowledge and magic...
...clarify two points in your story about Senate passage of legislation to reform the nation's immigration laws [Aug. 30]. Under the legislation, it will be illegal to hire anyone who entered the country illegally. However, businesses with three or fewer employees would not be required to maintain a record of a prospective employee's identification documents. Also, employers would be subject to fines only if it could be demonstrated that they knowingly hired an undocumented person. The prohibition that people who enter this nation illegally shall not be hired is the only way to stanch the flow...
...talks about the Palestinian issue started again, they could all too easily get entangled with what now looms as a long and difficult set of negotiations to remove Israeli and Syrian forces from Lebanon and put that shattered country back together. "We have got to try very hard to maintain separate tracks" for the two sets of talks, says one U.S. official. Adds another: "If we get boxed in by Lebanon, we won't get to first base on a [general Middle East] peace settlement for a very, very long time...
...leaders maintain that their group has long done the kind of work on issues like sexual harassment, rape security, and women's studies that regular student governments have never addressed...
...Kleenex is to a)Kool-Aid, b)photo-copying machines, c)facial tissue, d)lawn care equipment? (Correct, the answer is "c"). Stanley knows his stuff; it's just that the process of transferring to LSAT-think creates a danger of mental short-circuiting when you try to maintain normal synapse activity at the same time...