Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...painting is worth $50 million and will not let it off the wall if insured for less. Even there, the problem is compounded by the auction houses: when consulted on insurance values or by the IRS, they tend to stick the maximum imaginable price on a painting to maintain the image of its market value and tempt the owner to sell...
...best way to guarantee freedom from injury is to maintain the facility in perfect working order and then not allow anyone to use it. This is as true for the football field as for the pool. But given that utilization is explicitly the justification for the existence of these resources, there needs to be a way to accommodate both the community's access and assurance...
...securely strapped into strollers, to wait by the pool while mom, dad and older siblings went swimming. In past years, a watchful eye was kept on the baby parked at the end of the lane. With both the baby boom and the increased number of people actively working to maintain their physical fitness, more and more people began bringing babies to the pool. Many strollers scattered around the pool's edge seemed not the safest nor most convenient way to swim...
...some councillors said they worried about the program's high cost. Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf questioned whether the city needed all five floors of the building. But O'Brien said the space was definitely necessary for the city to maintain quality healthcare...
...measure. The pilots, who earn an average of $61,000 a year, are demanding a 29.5% increase. To help out during the strike, the air force converted 14 military passenger aircraft to temporary commercial service. Australia's three domestic carriers, Ansett, East-West and Australian Airlines, have managed to maintain 40% of their daily flight schedules, in part by hiring foreign charters. (Qantas, an international carrier, is not affected by the strike...