Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anastasio Somoza for Nicaragua and the anti-American guerrilla Augusto Cesar Sandino, for whom Nicaragua's ruling leftist Sandinista movement is named. The alliterative phrase He as an Enders aide said, a rueful reminder that Nicaragua is "gone." He considers El Salvador pivotal because if moderates fail to maintain power there, then to Guatemala and even Costa Rica are vulnerable to insurgency...
Approval of the second question "will essentially not raise anybody's taxes," according to City Manager Robert Healy, because it would merely maintain the current $57 million level of city services...
Hogan says that a coach should "demonstrate compassion towards the players but maintain a firm hand...
...eased its financial requirements, limiting he amount of money traders can lose. If the speculators are forced to liquidate more of their holdings, however, the Malaysians will have an opportunity to buy additional tin. The larger questions that remain unanswered are whether Malaysia and the other major producers can maintain an artificially high price for tin, and whether a residue of political bitterness will continue over the Reagan Administration's attempt to inject an element of free trade into the tin market...
...difference between the various deployment schemes was now down to a quibble. As a sign of his good will, he said, I could inform Golda Meir that he would not exercise his right to keep 30 tanks across the Canal. The principle that Egypt had the right to maintain its major weapons on its own soil had been established; he would not use it. Then, dramatically, he asked me to take a personal message to Golda. He dictated it on the spot; it was the first direct message in 26 years from an Egyptian head of government to his counterpart...