Word: maintainence
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...that he did not believe Musharraf could constitutionally continue as army chief beyond his current term as President. Coming in an election year for both the Parliament and the President, who is chosen by an electoral college comprising legislators, this statement appeared directly to challenge Musharraf's ability to maintain his simultaneous control over Pakistan's military and government...
Rechristening the drink Magners, C&C successfully ventured into Northern Ireland in 1999. It conquered Scotland in 2004 and 2005, hit London in 2005 and took on the rest of England in 2006. British rivals maintain that C&C is just riding a wave of popularity, not creating it. Sales of Strongbow, an S&N brand that boasts a 60% share of the U.K. cider market, have grown consistently for four years, the company says. Analyst O'Reilly disagrees, calculating that more than 70% of cider's recent growth is attributable to Magners. Certainly, rivals have dashed to bring...
Created in the early 1980’s to maintain minimum levels of academic excellence in the Ivy League, the AI combines one’s highest SAT I and SAT II scores with high school class rank in order to assign each applicant a value ranging from 60 to 240. The league then sets three main controls: first, it establishes a universal floor, below which any candidate must also possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard...
...demand: that Harvard adopt a policy of divesting from companies that do business with the Sudanese government.Harvard continues to hold investments in firms accused of financing the ongoing genocide in Darfur. And despite selling its direct stakes in two oil firms with ties to Sudan, the University continues to maintain “indirect” investments in such companies through funds in its portfolio.The University’s holdings in three of those funds declined slightly during the first quarter of 2007, according to filings last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But the student divestment movement...
...past four years, crisscrossing the planet to present his remarkably powerful slide show and the Oscar-winning documentary that's based on it, An Inconvenient Truth, to groups of every size and description. He flies commercial most of the time to use less CO2 and buys offsets to maintain a carbon-neutral life. In tandem with Hurricane Katrina and a rising chorus of warning from climate scientists, Gore's film helped trigger one of the most dramatic opinion shifts in history as Americans suddenly realized they must change the way they live. In a recent New York Times/CBS News poll...