Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the Covenant steering committee, said, "We're in a process of trying to re-evaluate what has already been done and to try to ascertain where there have been some breakdowns. We haven't been going in a fluid motion," he admitted. While some downtown churches have maintained Covenant sponsored dialogues between people of different races, Luster said, "areas such as Dorchester and Roxbury have been difficult to maintain...
...using a pair of precision calipers--Gould determined that Mickey's eyes, head and forehead all became larger as he aged, making him appear younger because large eyes and a bulging cranium are features common in infants. Gould extrapolates from the Mickey Mouse illustration to observe that human beings maintain much of their childlike appearance throughout later life, unlike most other mammals, making us, like Mickey, unique in that respect...
Reiterating the argument he forwarded in The Cultural Contradiction of Capitalism. Bell goes on to say capitalism has "lost its original justifications" and has "taken over the legitimations of an antibourgeois culture to maintain the continuity of its own economic institutions." He worries about insidious widespread hedonism, the development of a pornotopia--no doubt influenced by those pleasure-seeking, authority-challenging students of the late...
...training has been a very painful process for Carter. He hurt himself from the start by both expecting and promising too much. He arrived in Washington with an almost limitless list of priorities that was too much, too soon. Some close aides maintain the President has benefited from that. "He's learned how to prioritize and to say no," says Strauss. "The Panama Canal treaties were important, but he should have worked harder on energy first." If Carter wins again, says Strauss, "he's got to work on long-term planning...
...Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, the Soviets have apparently given up their attempt to dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar in the south. In Kabul, sniper and grenade attacks have forced a progressively longer and stricter curfew, most recently from 10 o'clock in the evening to 5 in the morning...