Word: maintained
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...nephews', will be a little less peculiar, a little less acute. The chain was almost broken; by God, it held. It held because a few thousand people struck stunned and alive by instincts and expensive education's and rough upbringings and deadly cities were able somehow to achieve and maintain the chain outside itself on to your generation, and then clean it as we fixed another link...
...about the generation that grew up in the '60s in the midst of extraordinary affluence, that led us to expect something from the world that generations before us hadn't expected: a level of personal fulfillment and freedom, and the therapeutic gratification that society didn't make easy to maintain," says Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University and former Harvard faculty member...
...broad front might be slower, but Eisenhower, the student of logistics, could make no other choice. In their race across the Seine, the Allied units outran their stocks of gasoline, ammunition, spare parts and food. To maintain itself in the field, an infantry division required 650 tons of supplies every day. The supply planners assumed that they would not have to support any U.S. divisions north of the Seine until 120 days after D-day. But within 90 days, 16 divisions were 150 miles beyond the Seine. Both Montgomery and Bradley had to halt to let supplies catch...
Republicans maintain that costs can be held down without compelling all Americans to jump into the health pool. But premium leveling, the one component of health-care reform that enjoys almost universal support, cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Much like anatomy, all the pieces connect: the aging and the sick are connected to the young, who need employers to ease their new burden, who need the cooperation of other employers to spread the costs. Otherwise, the healthiest and the wealthiest will forgo insurance -- and America's health-care system could get even sicker...
Rudenstine claimed that the task force proposals, which if approved would become effective on January 1, 1995, would shift the burden of health care costs away from lower paid staff. That change would come, its seems, because higher-paid employees would have to pay directly in order to maintain their current extensive health care plans...