Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the complex interactions within the atom, the volatile human forces at work on the planet earth may be able to maintain their dynamic equilibrium indefinitely. That will unquestionably require ever increasing wisdom and skillful management, as well as luck. Many more Americans are now beginning to think seriously about what used to be called the unthinkable. Insofar as this new wave of concern and activism about the single biggest threat facing mankind does justice to the complexity of the problem, and steers clear of simple-minded pseudo solutions, it may foster some of the prerequisites for survival. In which...
Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev once held each other's hands in the back seat of the Soviet leader's limousine as they pledged their personal commitments to maintain peace. To this day, Ford does not think that Brezhnev, no matter how great the Soviet missile advantage may be, is capable of marching into the Kremlin's command center and launching Armageddon. Ford obviously was not. "You won't do that because you are a human being," he said last week. His former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger finds it "very dubious" that either...
...1970s, food prices often kept right on rising rapidly even when crops were huge, but that is no longer happening. Export demand has somewhat abated as good crops in many nations have bolstered world supplies. Meanwhile, high interest rates have made it prohibitively expensive for farmers to maintain large storage operations, and as food has been pushed onto the market, prices have slumped. Finally, says Gene Sullivan, director of regional economics at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, after years of having their incomes pinched by inflation and now recession, "consumers are more price discriminatory. They are not purchasing beefsteak...
...that James Stirling, England's leading architect, would design an addition to it. But early last February, with $21.5 million raised, Harvard President Derek Bok decided to scrap the whole project, citing risks of construction cost overruns and fears that the new museum would be too expensive to maintain. Amid general confusion and doubt, Bok agreed to back off, provided donors could come up with $3 million more by mid-March and a further $3 million during the next three years. By last week, the Fogg's supporters had pledged the additional money, and Stirling's needed...
...despite the problems with the final draft, the group said it had won a major guarantees that welfare recipients entering the program will least maintain their current income...