Word: maintain
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When he begins his six-year term on Dec. 1, Salinas will have to navigate carefully between the demands of the P.R.I. old guard to maintain the party's hegemony and his own vision of a more democratic future. Throughout the campaign, there were indications that many P.R.I. stalwarts intended to fight any attempt by Salinas to open the system to a vigorous exchange of ideas. Much like the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Salinas knows that political liberalization is imperative if he is to succeed in restructuring a debt- ridden, slow-growth economy. But before Salinas can begin...
...would be well worth the while of the members of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to heed the warning of the poet now dead two millenia. The traditional party of Mexico for the past six decades, the PRI is proving too rigid in its effort to maintain political power in this month's presidential elections...
Lelyweld said he had been told by MCADofficials that the agency will receive a $350,000federal grant from the Department of Housing andUrban Development (HUD) and that another $110,000grant is pending. With those grants, MCAD willlikely be able to maintain or improve its currentaverage processing time of 280 days, he said...
There are those who fear that the same fate could eventually befall Olmos, that he is simply spreading himself too thin. The actor's tendency to put himself on the line -- both on the set and on the street -- is motivated by a feeling that he has to maintain his personal code of honor in a corrupt world. Olmos locked horns with Director Menendez on the set of Stand and Deliver by insisting that the film be accurate to the Escalante story in every respect. Moreover, the echoes of Miami Vice keep recurring in his personal and professional life. Like...
Once students complete the applications,however, the work is not over, for the admissionsoffice or for the student. For the applicant'spart, he or she must try to maintain his or heracademic and extracurricular performance, but forthe Admissions Office the arduous task of paringdown the 14,000 applicants into 2000 diverseacceptances begins...