Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of Roar's pilot offers the hope that the show will maintain an ongoing subplot of a cursed romance between Conor and a rival's daughter. That promise vanishes quickly, unfortunately. It may have been just what Roar needed--a little touch of Melrose Place...
...work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same environmental and social ethics abroad that they are forced to practice at home. ILA L. ABERNATHY, Coordinator St. Michael's Guatemala Project Tucson, Ariz...
...Tocqueville wrote about newspapers during the early nineteenth century in his monumental work Democracy in America: "So the more equal men [sic] become and the more individualism becomes a menace, the more necessary are newspapers. We should underrate their importance if we thought they just guaranteed liberty; they maintain civilization...
...elusive. Freedom of the press is a central tenet of any viable-democracy. A legal limitation on that freedom would be devastating. But the laxity of standards and the lure of cash have put the journalistic profession in a precarious position--one that cannot continue if newspapers hope to maintain their role as perpetuators of civilization as Tocqueville imagined. Perhaps, then, I can add my voice to the clarion call for a reevaluation of the mission of journalism and the potential dignity of the profession...
...Commission works only toward preservation objectives, aiming to maintain historical and architectural integrity...