Word: maintainable
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...singer's 1937 death is peripheral to the main plot which centers around a bigoted white nurse (Marie Larkin), her "liberal-thinking" doctor boyfriend (Gavin Barbour) and the hospital's black orderly (Gut Bushfan). In an attempt to maintain universality, the characters are nameless, and yet they are too textured to be archetypal. The nurse wields as much authority as she can, threatening to have both the orderly--who is more educated than she--as well as the doctor who is always standing up for "them nigger," fired...
Having lost the competition she came to win, Rakow entered the sparring competition with nothing to lose. Facing smaller, quicker opponents in her first two rounds, Rakow said playing it fast and loose helped maintain her mental concentration, possibly the most critical element when it comes to sparring...
Kosovo represents one more failure of the world community to protect the victimized and maintain international stability. While the conflict is finally getting some deserved attention, the recent progress may be too little and is most certainly too late...
...Editor emeritus Robert J. Teply '99 said he believes it is difficult to found and maintain a new magazine in an academic environment rife with publications as diverse as The Lampoon...
...difficult to maintain...