Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed social and economic] changes will be introduced in stages, based on a pace of transformation that will take into account the crisis situation, the fact that France's economy is open to the world at large, and the need to maintain economic and financial equilibrium...
...Israel. "Making the best we could of a terrible situation," as a senior White House official put it, Washington agreed to the strong language in the U.N. resolution to placate Arab anger. Said the official: "We worked very, very hard on the wording of this resolution in order to maintain a dialogue and our credibility with the moderate Arabs. We also wanted to recognize that we have interests in the Middle East that go beyond Israel...
...that issue, the negotiations foundered. To maintain competitive balance, the owners argued, clubs had to receive a player comparable in stature to the departing free agent. Under their proposal, a team that signed a free agent would be allowed to exempt 15 players from its major and minor league rosters; the player's original team would be able to pick a compensatory player from those who remained...
Eugene Birnbaum, a former official of the International Monetary Fund, argues that the Government must "lick inflation first." Then the gold standard would provide the needed "discipline for politicians and bureaucrats" to maintain stable prices. He and other gold advocates believe that without such a system, governments will always fall to the temptation of inflating their currencies rather than taking prudent anti-inflation steps...
...become a little tacky. Nancy Reagan wears expensively elegant designer clothes ("American thoroughbred," Women's Wear Daily calls her look) and sets a handsome table of French dishes and the best California wines. Her Los Angeles hairdresser, Julius Bengtsson, flies in at least once a month to maintain the "highlights" in her hair...