Word: maintain
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...Yudhoyono, who is seeking a second term and a majority in Parliament for his Democratic Party. The fate of his vice president, Jusuf Kalla, who helped broker the Aceh peace agreement signed in Helsinki in August 2005, is less clear, as his Suharto-era Golkar party is struggling to maintain the same number of seats as it won in 2004, when it finished...
...archetype and a few flimsy love scenes to validate its guileful plot. The audience is supposed to assume that as spies, Claire and Ray jet glamorously around the world wearing stilettos and aviators but suffer internally from the effects of their constant double-dealing. Oftentimes they struggle to maintain faith even in each other. “Admit it,” Claire muses after testing Ray’s fidelity by planting her black lacy thong in his apartment. “You don’t trust me either.” The audience never really glimpses more...
...rather than enjoyment, from the audience. Even the set design is minimalist. The stage features only walls on wheels, which move increasingly closer to each other as the play progresses. As with most absurdist dramas, “The Birthday Party” eschews a set in order to maintain focus on the dialogue between actors, thus relying on the cast’s abilities. “We are so lucky to have an incredibly talented cast who is totally capable of handling the challenging material,” writes Morgan L. Mallory...
...surged from 11% in 1973 to a peak of 35% in 1994, according to the state's Corrections Department. The surge was mostly a result of convictions for "nonviolent, low-level drug possession and drug sales" Paterson told TIME, "people who were addicted and were selling to try to maintain their habits." According to Paterson, just 16% had a history of violence. "And so really," he says, "you're shipping off a generation." In 1979, the laws were amended, reducing penalties for marijuana posession. But despite the ongoing criticism in New York, other states began to enact laws to deal...
...Those in Pakistan's security establishment who maintain ties with the Taliban may, as Musharraf did in 2001, see Pakistan serving as a useful interlocutor with a movement that remains central to Afghanistan's fate. When the New York Times reported last week on the ongoing links between the ISI and the Taliban, it also reported that the British government "has sent several dispatches to Islamabad in recent months asking that the ISI use its strategy meetings with the Taliban to persuade its commanders to scale back violence in Afghanistan before the August presidential election there...