Word: maintainance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brown JV jumped out to a four-seat lead at 500, and withstood Crimson power moves at 800, 1000, and 1200 meters, to maintain a three-seat margin with 500 meters to go. The Crimson rowed furiously, but couldn't close, and finished two seconds back...
...first rise in nearly three years. Several major banks soon followed suit. Two days later, seven leading banks had announced that they would take the serious step of reclassifying their loans to Brazil to a "nonperforming" status. That means that the banks' books will no longer maintain the fiction that Brazil is still paying interest. The decision will sharply slash the lenders' first quarter profits...
...Action Center, and David Tobis, found that only about a third receive government financial assistance of any kind, though virtually all are eligible. Says Lasdon: "The report shatters the myth of the safety net by showing that people actually go hungry and homeless because they can't get and maintain the benefits they are entitled...
However, Japan's educational system will need more than a smattering of foreign influences if it hopes to maintain its vitality. While educators the world over seem to agree that the Japanese system is superior up through high school, Japanese universities have failed to achieve the same recognition. Japan's academic emphasis on rote learning fails to encourage the sort of innovative thinking that will be crucial to its high-tech future...
...struggle to survive and maintain normality is rendered with an immediacy that has not staled. Yet Missie Vassiltchikov seems to grow increasingly remote as her diary unfolds. There are gaps due to loss and destruction, but mainly there is a lack of adequate information about Missie herself. What was she like? What kind of life did she have after the war? In a foreword, her brother George drapes her in a biographical purdah. He says only that Marie Vassiltchikov was born in 1917, one of the five children of Prince Illarion and Princess Lydia Vassiltchikov of St. Petersburg. The family...