Word: maintained
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...will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia, as well as the globalization of trade, is making it much harder for the stodgy Japanese bureaucrats to maintain the country's advantage. In fact, Japan's mandarins have kept borrowing to prop up the economy with massive public-works projects, running the national debt up to nearly $4 trillion--just about as much as the GDP--by far the worst record in the developed world...
...Magazine reported this week about the overwhelming amount of information available to people because of the growing number of sources, such as the Internet. Clearly, some sources will be more useful to people than others and, according to Elizabeth Gleick, it has become increasingly difficult for the newspaper to maintain its reputation as a solid and valuable source of news distribution in light of the increasing online news information system and the growing availability of computers and the Internet to the general public...
...Maya Angelou as she gracefully stepped forward to the podium. Standing before a gathering of Democrats at their August convention in Chicago, Angelou put forth ideas applicable to both Republicans and Democrats. In her inimitable river of words, she urged Americans to "discuss the issues that separate us," yet maintain respect for one another "since we are more alike than unalike...
...said Clinton will likely propose $1,500 federal tuition assistance to all students attending their first year of college, which can be renewed if students "maintain a B average and stay off drugs...
Including maintenance and assuming computer's lifetime is five years, a rolling renewal plan costs $600 per computer per year or $1.5 million per year to maintain 2,500 faculty and staff...