Word: maintain
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...Edward J. King mobilized the state National Guard as service stopped. The guardsmen will be used to help maintain security at the system's stations and to aid travellers stranded by the cutoff...
...impressed by the argument that the pass/fail option would encourage students to select more challenging and intellectually demanding Core courses. In each area of the Core, certain courses will be perceived by a given student as riskier than others. Students who feel obliged to maintain the highest possible grade-point average are tempted to satisfy Core requirements by taking what they perceive to be the safest courses. The pass/fail option would reduce the risk involved in taking a course that treads on unfamiliar ground...
Nicholas is a typical young Dickens hero. Steadfast, upright and much beleaguered, he struggles to maintain a life for his sister and newly widowed mother against the unexpected threats and grim incursions of greedy uncles, sinister aristocrats, crooked politicians and assorted malefactors. He holds down a variety of jobs-perhaps most memorably as an actor playing roles like Romeo in the provincial acting troupe of Mr. Vincent Crummies-but his employment is continually being interrupted by some emergency, as the plot loops round, over and back again on itself...
WASHINGTON--Three George Washington University Law School students filed a sex discrimination suit this week against four area restaurants that maintain different dress codes for men and women...
...conservatives are not only out to eliminate the "other guys," but also their own breed, disemboweling the liberal influence in government needed to maintain the delicate balance of power within the bipolar system. While it is not true that the New Right controlled the election, neither is it true that all the targeted Democrats would have fallen without a tilt of the scales...