Word: maintain
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...ahead of the curve / take a piece of the sunshine with me on an all-night drive to another world” and the poignantly direct opening line: “Another perfect day / They keep piling up / I got happiness that I can’t maintain / so beginner’s luck.”The most successful contributor of the three vocalists, however, is unquestionably M. Ward. “The Sandman, the Brakeman and Me” is the best track on the album and serves as a melancholic insight into what could have been...
...just said too much or too little. About halfway through the film, there is a delightful, computer-animated dream sequence that seems to herald a more imaginative turn. This is followed by several clever and visually striking set pieces involving the secondary characters, but unfortunately Klapisch is unable to maintain his momentum. The film lurches into a forced ending in which many of the loose ends are tied up just a bit too cleanly, and Pierre helpfully offers the moral of the story in a voiceover for those who haven’t figured it out by that point. Klapisch...
...seen as an option because of the harmful ripple effects it could inflict on Japan's struggling economy. "If JAL [significantly] shrinks domestic routes, other political problems might emerge" as prefectural airports lose traffic and money, says Hosoya. In the past, the government has typically propped up airlines to maintain routes and the number of airports - which are often a source of local pride rather than a reflection of traveler demand. "Basically, the country is losing money to save the network," Hosaya says. Soon it may be losing money to save its largest airline...
...address the fact that a 138-sq.-mi. city that once accommodated 1.85 million people is way too large for the 912,000 who remain. The fire, police and sanitation departments couldn't efficiently service the yawning stretches of barely inhabited areas even if the city could afford to maintain those operations at their former size. Detroit has to shrink its footprint, even if it means condemning decent houses in the gap-toothed areas and moving their occupants to compact neighborhoods where they might find a modicum of security and service. Build greenbelts, which are a lot cheaper to maintain...
...current or future civilian nuclear-development programs of all 22 of the Arab League nations, plus Israel and Iran, backed by the threat of immediate sanctions and possible military action for any breaches of the agreement not to build weapons. This would allow Iran to save face and maintain its ostensibly civilian nuclear program and, in exchange for the decommissioning of Israeli weapons, reassure the rest of the world that Iran isn't going to get the bomb either. Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami even floated the idea on a trip to the U.S. in 2006, but it fell...