Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...veteran diver, Jessop runs a salvage firm that has worked in the cold and turbulent North Sea. It took two years for Jessop to find the real position of the Edinburgh. The ensuing $4 million expedition used a vessel equipped with special computers to maintain its position over the wreckage. Divers, working in pairs, were conditioned to the extreme pressures of the Barents Sea bottom in special chambers aboard the ship, then were lowered to the hulk in a diving bell. To protect themselves from the killing cold of the water as they cut through the Edinburgh 's hull...
...will open an expanded version of that shop this month. Last spring, Kamali had to lock the doors of her own New York boutique for an entire day when customers, getting wind of a fresh shipment of sweats, noisily stormed her portals. In the Chicago area, Kamali fans maintain an informal hot line on where her clothes can be found. "Kamali is going beyond anyone's imagination," says Sidney Kimmel, chairman of Jones Apparel Group, which makes her sport sweat line. "When we started getting reorders from Midwest counties not known to jump...
...proposed committee, which Dean Rosovsky would chair, would advise professors on whether they could maintain potentially unacceptable conflicts. The new unit would not aggressively seek out professors who may be violating the Faculty's guidelines, nor would it make public information tendered by professors...
...team may post its first win tomorrow, when the Crimson takes on UPenn at 11 A.M. at Soldiers Field, in what Finn says will be an "intense" matchup. But win or lose, Finn will maintain the sunny optimism and chereful nature that have made her so successful in all of her athletic and extracurricular endeavors...
...peasants have few alternatives but to vote for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the party that has ruled Mexico without opposition for 50 years. To maintain its hegemony, the PRI minimizes political mobilization among the populace. Promises of government attention, combined with a foreign policy that even the most dedicated leftists cannot impugn, have traditionally kept activists quiet...