Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mainland China will find it very difficult to maintain the nationalism and hegemonism that it relies on now for its rule. Society on the mainland will become more pluralized. In that case, cross-strait relations will grow closer than at present...
...Montpelier and sent back to the towns in the form of block grants of $5,000 per student. In a state where local control is taken for granted, such a change would be galling enough. But the law has made it nearly impossible for well-off towns to maintain their school quality by raising money locally. The 41 "gold" towns have been told they must share all the property-tax revenue they raise (no matter how much) with 211 "receiver" towns--giving away in many places as much as 60[cents]to 70[cents] of every dollar...
...maintain, for example, a strict distinction between investing in stocks and trading them--and so should you. My hedge fund is divided into two roughly equal pools of money. The investing side is run in the old-fashioned Benjamin Graham-Warren Buffett tradition of seeking value, mainly among small stocks like savings and loans. Here I approach each investment as if I'm buying the company: I carefully research the financials, management, customers and competitors. I don't have to know when the stock price will rise, only that it will. I don't talk about it much, but historically...
...Indian I have never before felt so proud. The Big Five nuclear countries thought they alone had the right to maintain stocks of nuclear weapons, while others could only shiver in fear. Not so. DHRUBA GHOSH Calcutta...
Donald Lu, in the sports clinic, would especially stress the importance of weight-bearing exercises--walking, dancing, tennis and weight lifting--that work muscles against gravity as a way to maintain bone strength for women...