Word: maintainence
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...more than ever, as well as setting the political agenda, governments can manipulate public perceptions. Political scientists have written about the "public relations state"; not "spin" per se, but the way public relations has become institutionalized within government. Not only does the Howard government maintain some three dozen media advisers to deliver its message; like its recent Labor predecessors, it also uses additional people in the state capitals to monitor local media and produce transcripts. If a Labor frontbencher is interviewed on Perth radio, there's a good chance that within a few hours the relevant minister will be responding...
While part of that strategy might be the result of a conscious effort to maintain good habits, Harvard admittedly has little knowledge of its opening-round opponent Ohio St. and even Bergman confesses to knowing “nothing” of likely Friday singles challenger Lindsay Williams, who has knocked off a pair of top 20 players already this season...
Soon the elation dissipates. Hours after returning from the operation, the Marines receive word that they are to pull back to allow the new Iraqi force to enter the city. U.S. commanders insist that the Marines will maintain a presence around the city. Many in Easy Company view the decision as a retreat from the U.S. pledge to drive the "bad guys" out of Fallujah. "Does this remind you," Pantano says, "of another part of the world in the early...
...daughter Elizabeth was missing part of her 18th chromosome. To explain what that meant, the doctor showed Jannine a textbook with a horrifying picture and caption that she still keeps in her files. It read, "They are probably the most seriously afflicted among carriers of chromosome abnormalities. They maintain the froglike position observed in infants and are reduced to an entirely bedridden and vegetative life." The young mother was incredulous. "That just didn't jibe with what I was seeing," Cody vividly recalls. "It had been raining for a week, everything was wet, the packers were angry...
Because disarmament "is not possible now," Morse told the students that he would vote "not happily" for resumed testing due to his Senatorial responsibility to maintain the "security of our country." He called "all testing immoral" but explained that testing was essential to prove the small, as yet untried, war-heads on solid-fuel missiles and anti-missile missiles...