Word: maintainence
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David Luberoff, the executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at the Kennedy School of Government, welcomed the change, but said that the MBTA also must to address other more pressing issues, like fixing escalators, if it wants to maintain its riders’ trust...
...abridgement. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, by a razor-thin 5-4 vote, upheld the law on Dec. 10, 2003. That day may go down in history alongside other judicial low points, like May 18, 1896, when, in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Court ruled that states could maintain “separate but equal” facilities for whites and blacks. As one of the more moderate justices, Anthony Kennedy, wrote with regard to McCain-Feingold: “Never before in our history has the Court upheld a law that suppresses speech to this extent...
African-American students in schools with high interracial contact may feel greater social pressure to sacrifice their grades in order to maintain popularity than students in predominantly African-American schools, according to a paper published last month by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. and graduate student Paul Torelli...
...illegal lottery racket known as jueteng, which is commonly played throughout the Philippines. He's trying to expose politicians who rake off the profits, and he recently unearthed three whistle-blowers who claim that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law are involved. The President's aides maintain that the whistle-blowers have been paid to lie, and that Cruz, while an honorable cleric, has been hoodwinked. Cruz defends his actions: "When church people intervene in the so-called political field, it is because even politics is subject to right and wrong, subject to good and evil...
...course, selling household-name merchandise to the world does not guarantee success. Companies with great brands and global reach can still lose money. But a well-respected brand can often persuade customers to pay more for its product, which helps maintain margins in the fight against lesser-known rivals. Without brands, Taiwan's contract manufacturers are forced to compete with one another almost exclusively on price as they seek to land deals to supply the Apples and HPs of the world?and that kills profits. According to Macquarie Securities in Taipei, the net profit margins at six major Taiwan tech...