Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressive performance. "Republicans were tickled to death with the debate," says Howard Baker, one of the participants. "It made the party as a whole look good." Reagan was all the more conspicuous by his absence. That absence, proclaimed the Quad City Times, was "a cowardly attempt to maintain a lead in the polls...
...success. Discussions have been held about forming cartels to cover commodities as varied as coconut oil, copper and phosphate rock. Such Xerox copies of OPEC have almost universally failed because of easily available substitute products or the unwillingness of would-be cartel members to cut production enough to maintain high prices. The copper exporting organization, for example, was weakened when industrial users began replacing that metal with plastics and aluminum, and effectively collapsed when the last recession produced a worldwide copper glut. The danger of other cartels remains remote -for now. Even so, individual nations may be moved to reduce...
...Brzezinski alone in arguing that the idea of detente would not prevent the Soviets from acting aggressively to maintain what they regard as their national interests. Other hard-liners within the Administration argue that the U.S.S.R. has repeatedly violated detente's main charter, the "Basic Principles of Relations" between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at their Moscow summit in May of 1972. This communique stated that the two superpowers "will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations" and that "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense...
...what the AIAW wants is high quality competition and well-run tournaments, it should seriously consider trying to work with, instead of against, the NCAA. It should pressure the NCAA to expand its own role in supporting and building women's sports. It should fight to maintain some of the gains it has won for women's athletics while giving women the benefit of the NCAA's wealth and influence...
Each year Doctors Robert Crosthwait and Robert Angel perform more than one hundred and twenty coronary artery bypass operations at Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas. Once the patient is anesthetized, his chest is opened and his heart is connected to a heart lung machine which will maintain the body's circulation while the heart is stopped. In the photograph above, Dr. Crosthwait makes an incision to expose the coronary artery while Dr. Angel aids with forceps. They will then stitch one end of a vein which they have removed from the patient's leg to the coronary and the other...