Word: maintain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...role of the FDA to legitimize or de-legitimize any number of lifestyles (from injecting intravenous drugs to having sex with men to traveling to Africa or Great Britain) by allowing or disallowing such individuals to donate blood. The FDA’s job is, simply, to maintain an adequate, safe supply of blood for patients who need it. But the FDA is only succeeding on one count: the blood is safe. Donated blood is in short supply nationwide, and the problem is particularly acute in New England, where recent winter storms have lowered the level of donations across...
You’d think that at Harvard, a place rife with generally nice folks, people would maintain a sense of old boys’ decorum—but you’d think wrong...
Harvard needs to take both games this weekend to maintain its slender shot of advancing into postseason competition. Penn is fast pulling away from the rest of the league—its record stands at 5-0 after a wild comeback win over Princeton—meaning that Harvard has to run the table, and then get help, in order to entertain any notions of playing for a championship on March 5th at the Palestra...
...fairy-tale lifestyle of the European aristocracy has been moving slowly toward extinction for several generations now. Many of the nobility's historic homes survive, but they're under threat too. Governments don't have the funds to maintain all of them, and few buyers can afford to maintain them as private homes. So what's happening to these stately piles? Many find new lives as luxury hotels. ITALY As early as 1822, Italian entrepreneur Giuseppe Dal Niel rented the central apartments of the crumbling Venetian Palazzo Dandolo, the Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...that they interact with their characters in some ways that parallel children's make-believe play. Authors often report that their characters seem to have autonomous lives, dictating their own dialogue, controlling the plot of stories and sometimes refusing to do what the authors ask of them. Some writers maintain personal relationships with characters outside their fictions. Novelist Alice Walker says she lived with her characters for a year while writing The Color Purple, even moving from New York City to Northern California to please them. They didn't like the tall buildings and city congestion, she says...