Word: maintain
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...doubt that the U.S. economy will soon be returning to the halcyon days of 6% mortgages or an 8% prime. When business starts to pick up, consumers and businesses will begin borrowing more and rates could start creeping higher. Moreover, the Federal Reserve has stated that it intends to maintain a tight rein on the growth of credit in order to keep inflation under control. This is likely to keep the key interest rates in the 12% to 15% range for the next year...
Against this assault, the Administration maintained that the agreement, hammered out after ten wearing months of negotiations, was designed to maintain good relations with both Peking and Taipei. Soon after Reagan took office, Administration insiders say, Peking began pressing Washington for a settlement on the thorny issue of continued U.S. weapons sales to Taiwan. When Peking began demanding a firm date for the U.S. to halt selling arms to Taiwan, Washington countered by insisting that the Chinese formally renounce the use of force to achieve reunification with Taiwan, and the talks foundered. But last May, after Chinese Communist Party Vice...
...port at dawn on Saturday belong to one of the most decorated units in the French army: the Foreign Legion's Deuxième REP (Second Foreign Parachute Regiment), whose history goes back to 1948, when, as the Second Foreign Parachute Battalion, it was sent to Cambodia to maintain internal security. In 1954, as Viet Minh guerrillas tightened their siege of the French base at Dien Bien Phu, 700 members of the battalion were dropped into the camp at night as last-minute reinforcements. Although the French were eventually defeated, the legionnaires fought heroically...
...plan as "sort of like inviting the fox in to give a lesson to the chickens." Said Merrill Panitt, editorial director of TV Guide: "Our feeling is that if we became a marketing tool for cable companies, it could compromise our editorial integrity." Replied Grunwald: "TV-CABLE WEEK will maintain complete editorial independence and provide straightforward, unbiased information...
...were to take the highly improbable step of suspending all military and economic aid to Israel, the cutoff would sap Israel's military strength, but only in the future. Thanks to past American generosity, Israel has enough made-in-U.S.A. weapons to maintain its siege of Beirut almost indefinitely...