Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Root for the local teams, even if you maintain your old allegiances. There is nothing like actually going to a stadium and watching a game that you care about...
...team (1-7, 0-4 Ivy) struggled to replace a crop of graduates and maintain a full roster, and its primary goal became building a cohesive team around a strong freshman class...
...maintain excellence is hard. To exceed it is even harder...
Only a handful of major-league pitchers can throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was because he'd had a painful bone spur removed from his shoulder. Maybe it was the years of weight training and pitching at batting practice. All the Devil Rays knew was that they were having a pathetic season and were desperate for left-handed pitching...
...With potentially critical problems ranging from infrastructure and corruption to separatist movements and religious activities outside of its control, the government is constantly trying to repair parts of the system that are breaking down," says Dowell. "But it's an extremely difficult system to maintain...