Word: maintain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...should also catch up with the trend, not only in learning but also in keeping Mandarin alive. Languages are the communicative bridges and tools among people and countries; they can create mutual understanding, trust and harmony in the global village. Taiwan should join the world in learning Mandarin to maintain and even boost its economic competitiveness and reduce cultural clashes within Taiwan and with China. Song Xiaowen Zhongli City, Taiwan...
...under pressure from students and faculty, the College scaled back this policy last year, lifting the restrictions on Lebanon, Israel, Iran, and nine other countries. The College did, however, maintain its restrictions on travel to countries with the strongest State Department warnings, including Haiti, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. —Staff writer Pierpaolo Barbieri can be reached at barbier@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu...
...addition to delisting its shares, Tatneft plans to terminate its registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which it said has become too expensive to maintain. The company said that it would focus its efforts on the London Stock Exchange...
...dumbing them down. But it's hard to see that improvement without the right yardstick. The skills they're developing are not trivial. They're learning to analyze complex systems with many interacting variables, to master new interfaces, to find and validate information in vast databases, to build and maintain extensive social networks crossing both virtual and real-world environments, to adapt existing technology to new uses. And they're learning all this in their spare time...
...akin to staging an embargo against Portugal that ignores its ties to the rest of Europe. The U.S. embargo on Cuba has enormous political costs for the U.S. and no benefit other than pleasing a portion, but not all, of Cuban-American voters. Moreover, for the U.S. to maintain an embargo on Cuba while embracing Vietnam--a communist state with which the U.S. fought a long and costly war--and promoting trade and investment with Hanoi represents a blatant double standard that provides ammunition to U.S. detractors everywhere...