Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part-time social worker in the Dutch city of Utrecht until she decided to focus all of her energies on her studies in psychology and motor therapy. But she cannot find a job, even as an ordinary nurse in a psychiatric ward. "The crucial thing is to maintain a disciplined life," Van den Thillart says. "So, I make a program for every new day: get up at a certain time, do this, do that. I keep telling myself I will get a job, I am going to make...
...that it would not interfere in local Taiwanese affairs, and island residents would be permitted to travel freely on the mainland. Reiterating a remarkable concession that has already become part of the Communists' courtship of Taiwan, Peking promised that the island could keep its own armed forces and maintain its present democratic system. Taipei's Nationalist leaders would be offered posts in Peking...
Anderson told an audience of 60 at Longfellow Hall that "to serve our people veritably, we must achieve in the dominant white man's society," but that attempting simultaneously to maintain tribal traditions results in "a kind of controlled schizophrenia...
...yielded over 30,000 one-celled animals, 50,000 algae, 400,000 fungi, and over 2.5 billion bacteria." Yet they fail to show how man is currently destroying his own food basket. They note briefly that other civilizations, like those in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, could not maintain their irrigation systems properly and withered away with their crops. But history, no matter how harrowing, does not always parallel the present. The potential catastrophes that they envision are simply too implausible to happen...
...serve many, but in the long run, that forest and the ecosystem that died with it might have been more valuable to man for quality-of-life reasons. Man should strive for more than just propagating his species; he should also improve the quality of each life. To maintain our numbers and increase them, eradication of other species would probably be necessary, but in the long run, all mankind would lose the intrinsic and extrinsic qualities of the deceased...