Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summerfield said a "phenomenal" increase in mail volume has made it necessary to seek more money to maintain full service...
Bach's cantatas are the backbone of his work, and to my mind the finest body of music ever written. Using almost every conceivable combination of soloists, chorus, and orchestra, the cantatas are varied in instrumentation but maintain an astonishingly high quality. More than 200 survive, but they are played all too infrequently, and it was a real pleasure to hear Cantata No. 32, for soprano, bass, oboe, and strings...
...between Fawzi and U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare, Nasser had gone a considerable way toward meeting the user nations' demands for protection against abuses. His willingness to accept arbitration and the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, his volunteered limitation of toll increases, his undertaking to maintain and improve the canal in accordance with the old company's plans, and his acknowledgement of the old company's rights to compensation, were all clearly stated pledges...
Kubla Khan ruled his far-flung empire from Korea to Hungary, using a pony express of 200,000 horses to maintain rapid communication, from his palace in Peking (which Marco Polo described with its "walls covered with gold and silver") or his pleasure-domed summer palace, with its 16-square-mile enclosed park at Shangtu (the Xanadu of Coleridge's famed verses). But because the Mongol Khans decreed that the elite Confucian scholars -who, under the Sung Dynasty, had ranked just below royalty-should be reduced to a category one degree above beggars, few Chinese scholars showed...
...Government the problem is how to maintain a strong domestic industry in case of war, which has always found the U.S. in short supply of critical metals. Unwilling to raise tariffs in the interests of world trade, the Eisenhower Administration in 1954 stepped up its stockpiling program, set about buying big supplies of the metals for strategic storage. By also bartering surplus U.S. grain for surplus foreign lead, zinc and antimony for the stockpile, the Department of Agriculture aimed to hold down metal imports. While the program helped U.S. miners by raising prices of zinc and lead, it also worsened...