Word: maintained
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...little fear on the left wouldn't be such a bad idea right now. Those of us who zealously care for our rights and value freedom as a paramount goal of government must realize that we are caught between a rock and a hard place: maintain the single-minded focus on freedom and individualism and lose the personal responsibility that makes them possible, or seek to resurrect community spirit via quasi-totalitraian measure that destroy the very liberties that are the ends of our society. How in practice we can strike a balance between the two is as yet unclear...
Fifth, refidents of the AMERICAN STATES would agree to maintain an unseemly level of DEFERENCE to the members of the royal family and an undue amount of CURIOSITY about their perfonal affairs; and to provide LUCRATIVE ENDORSEMENT OPPORTUNITIES in the field of WEIGHT CONTROL for any former members of the royal family...
Ninth, the AMERICAN STATES are obliged to maintain a fascination with really big British luxury OCEAN LINER DISAFTERS, in perpetuity...
...commerce. In presenting a policy paper designed to serve as blueprint for government control of the Internet, from copyright protections to privacy considerations, the President called for key patent and intellectual property policies to be developed in the next year. While the paper recommends that the government maintain restrictions on the export of sophisticated encryption technology, it takes the position that the U.S. should not impose any new taxes on Web commerce, meaning transactions conducted on the Internet. The encryption provision irks software makers, who make 48 percent of their profits overseas, and fear they will lose market share...
...been said that men give to maintain the status quo while women give to change the world," she said...