Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which local physicians blame for a flurry of marriage breakups and a rise in prescriptions for tranquilizers) to the $7 million that Duluth had to pay for a filtration plant when the city's drinking water was found to contain the asbestos-like fibers. Company spokesmen continue to maintain that the new basin is "not necessary" and that it was built "only because we were told to do it." But of course the whole problem might have been avoided if the lake had never been viewed as a convenient dump in the first place...
...Last Nomad recaps these earlier works in text and photos, and then pushes on into Persia, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the rocky heights of the Yemen. After 20 years, Thesiger's words and photographs maintain a clarity and freshness rarely found in books of this type. Everything is confronted directly and, though there is sameness, there are no clichés. There is even an occasional touch of Kipling in his prose: "Above the village the scant ruins of a castle sat on a fang of rock, accessible only by a precarious path above...
...guard against an excessive buildup of inventories. Some 200,000 autoworkers have been laid off. Last year 672 car dealers went out of business, and the number may rise in 1980. One reason is that dealers are being crushed by the high cost of borrowing to maintain the inventories of unsold cars that they do have. Ford Motor Co. Economist John Deaver figures that dealers have to pay more than $100 a month in interest charges for every car in their lots...
...world of "info-spheres," "techno-spheres," "biospheres" and "psycho-spheres." A Third Wave society would be "de-massified" by computer-controlled factories that retool easily and make standardization obsolete. The traditional financial ties between producers and consumers would be altered to create "prosumers" who could make and maintain goods for their...
...coaches who ahead of their time pointed out that 95 per cent of the battle was forcing young swimmers to believe in themselves and the training methods employed," Rose said. "Today's crop of top performers have an admirable devotion to training. I don't know if I could maintain a similar intensity if I had to do it all over again...