Word: maintainance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to maintain these standards on a daily basis. We have too much accountability to mess up. Being in the food business, you can't do anything else," Hennessey says...
...sure, the costs of this military buildup have been immense on both sides, and in the end this may be a Pyrrhic "victory" for the U.S. The money which the Pentagon has consumed coupled with general American consumerism, has left little for the levels of investment needed to maintain American economic--and thus, over the long term, diplomatic and military--hegemony...
...course the only way for the Soviets to maintain their military buildup at the expense of their own peoples standard of living was to erect a totalitarian system. This system ultimately wasted more precious Soviet resources for the upkeep of a massive and unproductive surveillance state which further debilitated Soviet capacities...
Federal prosecutors maintain that they did not have complete knowledge of how Portell concocted his stings, which began in 1987, after he was arrested in New Jersey for writing bad checks. But in the case of Isabel Garcia of Elizabeth, N.J., her defense lawyer has collected memos from authorities in Union County, N.J., showing that the DEA has been aware of Portell's seductive modus operandi since at least the fall of 1987. Garcia loaned Portell $8,700, which he returned in the form of bad checks. She claims she arranged a coke deal only because Portell promised to repay...
...perfect place. There one can be away but not away, close to home but not at home. The clean, well-lighted city on Lake Ontario is also where Irving, 47, met his second wife, literary agent Janet Turnbull. Irving and Turnbull were married in 1987, and maintain an apartment in Toronto's Forest Hill section. The author spends about a week each month north of the border, where there is no lack of literary companionship. Novelists Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont...