Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...implementation, especially in Gaza. Jericho is symbolic. In Gaza there are three-quarters of a million Palestinians, poverty, economic and social problems. The real problem is to what extent the P.L.O. will have the means to take over. They have never been responsible for running a large community -- to maintain law and order, to prevent terror, to run an economy, to build houses, to run schools, to develop industries. The whole future depends on how it works in Gaza-Jericho...
...strong" Palestinian police force called for in the agreement. Israeli security officials say the Palestinian cops will probably be armed with pistols, rifles and light machine guns. The P.L.O. would like to have armored personnel carriers and spotter helicopters as well. "We will give them everything they need to maintain security and keep power," says Nissim Zvilli, secretary-general of the Labor Party, "but nobody is going to build a Palestinian army...
...aims at a more thorough overhaul of the whole system. For instance, it would even contain a mechanism enabling the government to determine how many general practitioners and how many specialists medical schools train. Though Clinton and Magaziner insist they rely on carrots far more than sticks, critics still maintain the plan is too regulatory. Though all the leading plans aim to set up large risk pools of insurers and insured, the Clinton scheme would make these "alliances" mandatory. And though all are supposed to hold down the zooming increase in medical costs, the competing plans would rely on market...
...spirit of benign outlawry. They assert it first in the richly comic sequence in which they try to hide their horse from the police (who are in league with a rich man who wants to turn Tir na nOg into a champion jumper) in their tiny apartment. They maintain it as they move on into the west, where one of their refuges is, appropriately, a movie theater closed for the night. The sweetly funny improvisations of their flight through the Irish countryside all help them to resist sentimentality and symbolic schematization...
...asks them to return the chair. They refuse. She becomes angry, perhaps irrationally angry, and tries physically to retrieve the chair. As a compromise, the men agree to return the chair if she removes her shirt. She refuses, and frustrated and angry, storms off, muttering "fucking dicks." The men maintain it was simply a joke and that her reaction was uncalled...