Word: maintain
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...military shield is not only nuclear. Some 39,000 troops are based in South Korea and an additional 44,000 in Japan. Their fundamental purpose: to maintain the military balance in East Asia that is a precondition for continued Japanese political stability and economic growth. On the European continent the U.S. deploys more than 200,000 troops. By comparison, Britain has 55,000 troops stationed outside of its territory, Belgium 25,000, The Netherlands 8,620 and France 34,000. Though West Germany has 495,000 men and women in uniform, none serve outside the Federal Republic...
...Charles de Gaulle withdraws France's defense forces from NATO command to maintain national sovereignty but stays in the alliance...
...mankind and nature. Its members understand even less than the audience what's happening to Becket, but they too participate in a small way in the miracle of Becket's martyrdom and learn something as the play progresses. You wouldn't know it from the actresses at Currier, who maintain the same unbearable level of high-pitched, uncomprehending moaning from start to finish--until the Te Deum they sing at the end, for which their voices suddenly turn saccharine...
Indeed, for the past months most families have had no alternative but to stand behind the Carter Administration, or at least maintain a silence about their worries. But the strain of waiting was clearly taking its toll on the families. Their relatives were still alive, yet the threat of death remained. "It's almost like a grieving situation with parts of it unresolved," said Dorothy Limbert, psychotherapist and mother of State Department Officer John Limbert. Last month, 47 of the hostage families endorsed a letter sent to Carter threatening to protest if he allowed the Shah back into...
...demanded by many leftist reformers would stultify society; complete equality can only be enforced by dictatorship. Income-leveling experiments in Britain and Scandinavia have proved that an economy without reward for success produces social entropy. There is little incentive for anyone to do more than the minimum necessary to maintain his own standard of living. Argued Winston Churchill: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries...