Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biology research ten years ago has grown to $1.4 million. Moreover, universities must scramble to replace outdated facilities. Says Northwestern's Weber: "We have buildings here that cost $1 million to build 80 years ago, and cost $5 million just to repair." And books are not any cheaper. To maintain its library, Northwestern orders 29,000 periodicals a year at a cost approaching $2 million. Other uncontrollable costs include insurance and utilities. Emory University in Atlanta expects next year's electric bill to rise...
Soon it was deemed hypocritical to maintain the illegality of purchasing a woman's body for an hour, while condoning the purchase of her body for nine months. So prostitution was officially legalized on a national level. The expanding whorehouse business combined with the already existing men's sperm industry...
Education Department officials say that in an era of constricted fiscal resources, what the always entertaining Bennett has labeled "our greedy colleges" should take a backseat to funds to strengthen primary and secondary schools. Administration officials also maintain that since students who receive college degrees almost certainly will make more money than those who don't, there is no need to shed tears for students who take out loans to pay for college...
...distinct stories are often exciting, as the actress glides from life-threatening escapade to blissful romantic encounter, as W218 runs off to her forbidden lover. Unexpected twists to the plot keep the reader on his toes. And the vague relationships and incomplete developments of so much of the novel maintain an atmosphere of suspense. The reader cannot help but wonder how the characters are related, who is in love with whom, who is a spy, why the age of thirty is so significant, how the dead have come back to life...
PUIG IS not the magician with words that some of his contemporaries are; though perhaps partly the fault of the translator, his prose does not roll forward with the colorful sweep of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, does not maintain the lively, fresh tone of Julio Cortazar. Finally Pubis Angelical is not successful when considered as a whole. The three interwoven parts of the narrative do not converge to a single story; they are not unified by a definite connection between the characters, and their similarities do not, in the end, seem very convincing. The optimistic, peaceful conclusion of the novel...