Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment of maximum thrust, and with the plane fully loaded, had unbalanced the weight at a critical moment. Investigators also suspected that what some witnesses thought was fuel escaping from the wing might have been hydraulic fluid, which would have deprived Captain Lux of critical controls to maintain flight...
After selling some of his bank investments to a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur and acting as a consultant in finding investment opportunities for oil-rich Middle East millionaires, Lance has been able to maintain much of the high life-style that his edifice of credit once supported. His lawyers might argue that if Lance did break some banking rules, he did so without either fraud or malice, and that little or no actual damage was done to anyone...
...members of the Arab League, only Oman, Sudan and Somalia still maintain embassies in Cairo and have not joined the boycott...
When he assumed spiritual leadership of the 20-million-member Ismaili sect 22 years ago, the Aga Khan was asked whether he intended to maintain his grandfather's famous racing stables. "I'm not much for sport," replied the prince, then 20. "I don't know what I'll do with the horses." Quickly enough the young heir developed a passionate interest in what he described as "a game of chess with nature"-the breeding of horses -and today he reigns supreme over the French horse-racing establishment. His sport has led him into a bitter...
...Hospitals are inherently expensive places. They must maintain elaborately equipped facilities?emergency rooms, for example?24 hours a day, even though those facilities are used only sporadically. They are labor-intensive: the general ratio is 2.64 employees for every hospital bed. Aggressive unions have forced hospitals to raise the once depressed wages of their nonprofessional people (cooks, cleaners, clerks) so sharply that, for example, wages and benefits now take 70% of the budget of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, vs. 35% only 20 years ago. The introduction of expensive machinery raises rather than lowers labor costs. For example...