Word: maintaining
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Clearly, in many ways the resources-rich states have more in common with the industrialized world than with the desperately poor. Yet the developing world-Third and Fourth alike-has somehow managed to maintain an extraordinary unity. One reason for this unity is that the vast majority of developing states share one overriding experience: they emerged in the past two or three decades from long periods of colonial domination by the West. As independent states they all seem to feel that their problems are mainly due to their having been plundered by the imperialists. Whatever their differences, all now seem...
...than wreck our economy and prices." On that score, Meany clearly has a point. Again this year, the Russians reportedly planned their American grain purchases carefully, in order to get their ships' charters nailed down before word of the deal could get around and drive up rates. To maintain secrecy, they went so far as to set up a Paris-based charter company through which they quietly-and anonymously-lined up at least ten grain ships in late June and early in July...
...They also object to the moderates' emphasis on production and their slighting of ideological struggle. The radicals seem to be egging on dissatisfied workers to create problems for the moderates; in some places they may be hoping to replace local officials by making it impossible for them to maintain order...
There is currently some noise around to the effect that Cooley High-about growing up black in Chicago in 1964-is a separate but equal American Graffiti. Such impressions should be corrected immediately. It requires a certain defensiveness, or an anxious if inadvertent condescension, to maintain that Cooley High, crude of mind and clumsy of execution, can even compete with the smart high spirits of American Graffiti...
...division and White Motor Corp. have in the past pulled out their advertising after he rapped them. He also has to pay for lawyers to protect himself against an average of some $25 million in pending libel suits (he has won seven and never lost), and to maintain an electric gate at his shabby Hollywood offices to guard against midnight raiders and subpoena servers. Says one staffer: "He could be taking home a quarter-million a year, but he truly is a crusader." Parkhurst himself lives frugally with his wife (he owns no home) and seems unconcerned about his prodigal...