Word: maintained
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...such empire building is to maintain a flow of patients to the teaching hospital. His health-insurance company initially tried to talk Daniel Vonk, a teacher from Fernandina Beach, Florida, out of going to the Mayo branch in Jacksonville because its fees were so high. Vonk went anyway, on a referral from a sports-medicine specialist who had done an mri when he learned that an ache in Vonk's leg had persisted for more than a year. Mayo specialists diagnosed the problem as bone cancer and subjected Vonk to three operations; Vonk also spent six months in a partial...
...military coup, thoughts of the debacle in Somalia were still fresh in the minds of critics and supporters. But the U.S. has taken only two casualties, and so far the intervention appears to have been a success. Accompanied by American and U.N. power, Aristide has been able to maintain peace while disbanding the army and driving political thugs either into exile or underground. Even the U.S. "exit strategy" seems to have worked. The American presence has been reduced to 2,400 soldiers taking part in the U.N. force...
...three-month stay on Mir--a record sojourn for an American, though nearly a year short of the Russian record. The current mission is, among other things, a ticket home for Thagard and his two Russian companions on Mir; in exchange, Solovyev and Budarin will stay in orbit to maintain Mir's nine-year record of continuous habitation when Atlantis returns to earth this week...
...Russians have little money to repair or maintain Baikonur and are dependent on NASA payments--$400 million has been budgeted so far--for the use of their facilities. "The payment is not commensurate with Russian participation in the project," grumbles Grigori Khozin, director of the Center for Global Problems at the Russian Diplomatic Academy and an expert on his country's space program...
...explosion to help determine a way to maximize the remaining power of the spacecraft as the astronauts prespare to return to Earth. It's a vintage NASA scene--the astronaut and engineer, locked together in a room, not leaving until the problem is solved. All the while, they maintain the steely resolve of the fighter jocks and engineers that characterize NASA, despite the dire circumstances...