Word: maintain
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...elderly people, low and moderate wage-earners, and parents holding small children told the Cambridge City Council in a hearing last night that closing the city's 10 neighborhood health centers would deny them adequate care, and received unanimous assurance from the councilors that they would attempt to maintain funding for the centers at present levels...
...toehold in all the Antarctic claims except the Norwegian, which stops short of the pole proper. Says Bernhard Lettau, polar oceanography manager for the National Science Foundation, which runs the U.S.'s $67.4 million-a-year Antarctic scientific effort: "The pole is highly symbolic. By being here we maintain our status as first among equals of the treaty nations and prevent the Soviets from grabbing our base...
These days the squad should find it soothing to know it played well at least for several moments of the contest. Relatively well, that is. The 2-18 squad stayed within striking distance, but could not maintain the level of play needed to clinch the victory...
...Crimson is making the most of everyday, and the meet against UMass particularly helped a few members of the team maintain the sharpness that had carried them through the season. After the pressure-packed meets against powers Cornell and Columbia over the weekend, the matmen relished the chance to flex their muscles in a more relaxed matchup...
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity. He saith it in Calcutta and in Moscow, in London and New York, in newspapers and TV until the reader's attention flaggeth and verily his eyelids drop. Happily, Malcolm Muggeridge does not maintain a testamental tone throughout his selected diaries from 1932 to 1962. Despite the sackcloth prose, Muggeridge made his reputation as a restless journalist, BBC wit, and the scapegrace editor of Punch. When he is not ostentatiously wishing for death or lamenting his carnal desires for this or that mistress, he remains a world-class caricaturist...