Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, on the other hand, also believes a Palestinian homeland is both right and necessary. One of his advisors explains: "In the long run, killing off the PLO is not going to help Israel. There will always be a Palestinian movement, each day, more and more frustrated. Better to maintain the PLO as a strictly political force with some sense of honor intact. Then, hopefully, they will be more reasonable." It's a debatable position, but it's certainly borne of good faith and realism, not anti-Semitism...
...that's the way it should be." Instead of dismissing potential challengers as wrong, Nagy says that upon meeting resistance, he "will want to rethink my theories and present them in a way that my classicist colleagues find acceptable. To me, you see, it is really important to maintain all lines of communication...
...write the book and I know some people will listen to you-but I just hope you can make them feel prison from the inside. I hope you can make them feel how the time ticks away on you here and how no matter how hard you try to maintain yourself and some degree of independence and self-respect, the daily process eats away your spirit. I have always thought of myself as a pretty strong and open woman, but this joint has taken some of my gentleness, some of my womanhood. Kitsi, I'm not the same warm...
...Experts maintain, however, that unions can do still more organizing in the mushrooming service industries. Says Professor Oscar Ornati of New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration: "There will be unionization regardless of how unions are doing in the auto or steel industries. Probably in the next decade there will be unionization in areas that we don't even think of-banking, financial services. The people who work in these areas are becoming the factory workers of today...
Nonetheless, some banking experts maintain that the agreement will not deter insider trading, but merely force the illegal transactions to be conducted in other banking havens, such as Liechtenstein, Panama or the Caribbean. Says Paul Erdman, a bestselling financial novelist (The Crash of 79, The Last Days of America), who spent ten months in jail for violating Swiss financial laws: "Insider trading will just have to be done a little more cleverly...