Word: maintaining
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Lessons would have us believe that simply by applying the ideals that he learned in China to the business world, he was able to maintain an astronomical 40 percent growth rate over about 10 years, through bad economic periods and intense competition...
Domenic M. Bozzotto, who represents the University's dining hall workers, has primary responsibility for a portfolio that has included stock in Texaco, General Motors, and Caterpillar--all of which maintain operations in South Africa, according to Labor Department documents filed two years...
...education law also tightens eligibility for federal loan and grant programs by requiring a means test for all students, requiring students to maintain a grade point average "consistent with their school's graduation requirements," and making it more difficult for students to claim financial independence from their parents. These provisions will remove some students from the aid rolls; however, for those who remain the level of aid available will increase, with cumulative guaranteed loan ceilings rising 40 percent and a small increase in the Pell Grant ceiling. Taken together, the changes in the new law--and the unchanged level...
When federal agents seize property in drug cases, the Government must maintain it in good condition. But what happens when the confiscations include a couple of Thoroughbred racehorses? To keep them in running trim, the U.S. Marshals Service has kept them running...
Like the calibrated give-and-take over summitry and alleged spying that dominated Washington and Moscow, the gathering in Riga dramatized a basic principle of superpower relations: even in the worst of times, the two rivals seek to maintain competitive engagement in diplomacy rather than let their antagonisms get out of control. The reason is simple. In the nuclear age, the breakdown of diplomacy and the resort to war is not an option. Precisely because last week was a tense moment, it was a good week for the U.S. citizens who traveled to Riga...