Word: maintain
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...only by Jerry Ford, insist top aides to the candidates actually in the race for the G.O.P. nomination. They maintain that the expressions of interest in a Ford candidacy are coming primarily from G.O.P. fence sitters who want an excuse not to back Ronald Reagan, George Bush or their rivals until someone looks like a winner. Says California Republican Chairman Truman Campbell: "Ford is a comfortable place of refuge...
...more conservative groups, including religious and tribal elements, have challenged the wisdom of the government's high-production policy at a time when 1) the country needs to produce only 6 million bbl. per day to maintain current budgets and 2) the U.S. has been unable to secure autonomy for the Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and return the Muslim shrines in the Old City of Jerusalem...
...More than a quarter of a million homes, offices and factories in such low-lying areas as Westminster, Hammersmith, Lambeth and Southwark are inundated. In the streets, thousands of cars are left stranded. In central London, the underground is paralyzed, bridges and tunnels are closed. Hospitals struggle valiantly to maintain services, their task made all the more difficult by power blackouts, loss of telephone service, contamination of the water supply and the difficulty of mobilizing rescue teams. The Houses of Parliament and New Scotland Yard stand in several feet of water. Total damages from the great Thames flood: more than...
...PRESS has generally neither questioned this mixture of stances nor forced Bush to distinguish himself from his fellow Republicans on domestic issues. The media can thus take credit for helping Bush maintain his reputation as a man with whom anyone can agree. The whole scene recalls journalists' failure to pursue Carter's cliche-ridden spiel in 1976, when they opted instead to concentrate on his image as a fresh face, untainted by big time national politics and, of course, Watergate...
Writing in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, William J. Curran, 52, professor of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Ward Casscells, 28, a resident at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, maintain that death by injection, however carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal...