Word: maintain
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Peter Gallagher, the caterpillar-browed actor best known for the TV show The O.C. and films like While You Were Sleeping, is standing on a street corner, cell phone wedged against his shoulder, simultaneously trying to maintain an animated conversation and order a hotdog from a street vendor. Commuters push past him on the sidewalk, and in the background, yellow taxis fight their way through traffic...
...totaled $61.7 billion, down $102.5 million from the previous month, even as total lending has swelled, according to the All China Federation of Industry and Commerce. It isn't just financing that is flowing to SOEs. So are revenues from Beijing's infrastructure-heavy stimulus package. State-owned companies maintain a strong presence in construction, the sector that will gain the most from the surge in government spending...
...countries outside Mexico, and none of those cases have been serious. The virus appears to be vulnerable to antiviral drugs like Tamiflu, and thanks to global pandemic preparations since the SARS epidemic of 2003 and last year's flu outbreak in Hong Kong, the U.S. and other developed countries maintain large stockpiles of the drug. "We are seeing a much more clear and cogent response than in the past," said Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations...
...speeches and music by The Clash that were incorporated into her lectures. Jasanoff’s friends and colleagues call her humorous yet analytical, accessible and engaging yet focused on her research, original but still realistic. It is her ability to intertwine work and life that enables her to maintain such an ideal balance. “There are scholars who are hard working and there are scholars who are talented,” says Jasanoff’s friend and Harvard Society Junior Fellow Sam Haselby. “Maya Jasanoff is both hardworking and talented...
...Coman wrote. With more and more universities remaining closed for extended periods of time, Arbuthnott said he was forced to drop a class he initially signed up for and go elsewhere in order to fulfill his academic requirements. “In order to take four full courses and maintain my academic standing, I decided that it was in my best interest to drop some of my classes at public universities which were affected by the strike and instead take classes at private universities,” said Arbuthnott. Because the strikes have been centered on public universities, Crimson expatriates...