Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have never been a fan of big government projects, yet I have come to conclusion that the Big Dig, in spite of its poor implementation and its many accompanying nuisances, is a necessary investment that will help maintain the city's prosperity well into the next century. Although I still scoff at the ridiculously bloated bureaucracy that is Massachusetts state government, it is cooperative efforts between the city and the suburbs, such as the MBTA and the Metropolitan District Commission (which maintains many of Boston's parks and historic sites), that have helped keep downtown Boston the center...
...flip them in the right order. First usually comes the finance argument: the pro-capital punishment side derides the state for spending money to keep murderers alive, while the opposition fires back by insisting that it costs far more to execute a criminal than it does to maintain him in prison for life. Although nominally correct, there are several problems with this latter "card." First and obviously, the massive cost of carrying out a death sentence is incurred not through the actual procedure itself but, rather, through the endless appeals that each case involves...
...plan to open five more by the end of the decade. But Hilton, which last year earned half of its $353 million in operating income from gambling, is hardly turning its back on the lodging business. "We will continue to grow our hotels [as well as] gaming and maintain them at 50-50," Bollenbach says. So travelers will still find beds at Hilton without having to risk losing their shirts...
...education, he would like to focus on the issues of class and section size and the relationship that undergraduates have with faculty members. He added he wanted to work with the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning to ensure that teaching fellows are well prepared and wanted to maintain a high percentage of seniors pursuing theses or senior projects...
Unfortunately, the Crimson could not maintain its high percentage; the Commodores applied increasingly intense defensive pressure, which forced Harvard to take hurried shots with the shot-clock winding down...