Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first priorities, MacFarquhar said, is to maintain the department's stature. "The department is reckoned to be the best department in the country. The chair's prime aim is to keep it there. We can't just relax on the laurels U.S. News [and World Report] or whoever throws...
...Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan fears, this boiling job market may be heating the inflation pot. Greenspan needs to maintain low interest rates to keep capital flowing into the troubled Asian economies. But the Labor Department report says wages have jumped to a record $12.67 an hour. That's got to put the fear into the Fed. It's unlikely that El Niño can cause enough bad weather -- as it did in March -- to slow the job juggernaut again. Between keeping interest rates beneficial to Asia and raising them to nix U.S. inflation, Greenspan's bind just became...
Show executives maintain that every Sesame Street show is new, with 65 shows taped each year, about two shows per day from August to December. Actors are expected to be able to do each scene right the first time, and those participating in the panel called the philosophy "Down, dirty...
...most memorable stories told during thereception following the panel discussion dealtwith children's desire to maintain the illusionthat muppets are real. Clash said that when kidstalk to him with Elmo present, "they don't evensee...
...hope United States foreign policy will maintain moral standards," Wang said. "I guess the U.S. has its own interests to look out for. But this doesn't prevent us from raising moral demands...