Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unprecedented move, the Securities and Exchange Commission has liquidated a money market fund. The reason: the fund failed to to maintain its share price at the customary level of $1. Investors will get back only 94 cents on the dollar. SEC chairman Arthur Levitt announced the move at a hearing of the House Banking Committee Tuesday. The liquidation of the Denver-based fund, known as the Community Bankers U.S. Government Money Market Fund, should not affect retail investors directly. All of its $83 million in assets was deposited by 113 institutional customers, mostly banks. And Levitt emphasized that the demise...
...architectural style is Victorian Gothic, its penology just plain gothic. Or maybe Visigothic. It is a place designed not to reform but to drive you crazy. Cool is what you need to survive here, and supercool is what you need to maintain a semblance of humanity. Andy, who insists he has been wrongly convicted, looks fragile. But he has a lot of tensile strength, as the joint's brutal homosexual ring ultimately finds out. He has even more mental strength, patiently working up -- for 19 years -- an escape attempt that will not only bring down the insufferably pious and hypocritical...
Courses and faculty have been adjusted to accommodate the increase in enrollment and maintain faculty-student contact...
...back and beginning to rebuild his public image. After Clinton defeated Bush in the '92 race, Quayle did the intelligent thing for a vice-president on a losing ticket with future ambitions--he dropped out of night. He began work on a book and continued to maintain a low profile for the beginning of the new administration. And now that Clinton is faltering, sure enough; here comes Dan Quayle's name again--this time sounding much more mature and more presidential than before...
Such ghastly scenes raise again questions the U.S. had almost forgotten: Can air travel maintain its recent glowing safety record? Or are financially troubled airlines -- USAir in particular -- skimping dangerously on maintenance and crew training to cut losses? It is difficult to answer without some idea of what caused the crash of USAir 427, and there were few early clues. Though the black box of voice recordings from the crew was recovered, it revealed only uninformative cries of "Oh, God" and "Oh, s---" and the words "traffic emergency" followed by a scream. "We're all very much at a loss...