Word: maintaining
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When he takes the Joint Chiefs job, Powell will need all these skills and more. The Pentagon budget, flat since 1986, is likely to undergo cuts that threaten not only major weapons programs but also the delicate interservice balance that a JCS Chairman must maintain...
Shnayerson, one of those rare, lucky biographers who are able to maintain affection for their subjects throughout, mounts a spirited but finally too conventional defense of Shaw's late work and life. The prose was always better than that of Judith Krantz and her ilk, Shnayerson notes, even in the most improbable tales. Moreover, he argues, the glittering "sweep" of these 71 years in themselves represents an artful construction, worthy of the sometimes numbing detail with which he recites old guest lists...
...luxury over the past 60 years, as a superpower, of not having to worry about its borders, either north or south. In the case of Mexico that is no longer true -- not because the Soviet Union is establishing a beachhead in Veracruz but because in order to maintain the type of relationship with Mexico that the U.S. has had over the past 60 years, the U.S. is going to have to do much more. The U.S. is going to have to pay a higher price in every sense of the word: more money, more attention, more time, more effort...
...Goldberg near the conclusion of the hearings. Last week's uncomfortable spotlight may have supplied the IRS with some much needed motivation. Said Edward Habecker, a former IRS official, in testimony at the hearings: "What is lacking today within the IRS is not the tools, but the desire to maintain high ethical standards...
...there agreement on the strategic justification for the bomber. Cheney argues that the Stealth is needed to maintain "the effectiveness of the bomber leg of the strategic triad," the mix of land- and sea-based missiles and nuclear weapons carried by aircraft on which U.S. deterrence has been based. Welch contends that bombers are regarded by both the U.S. and the Soviets as "the most stabilizing element of the triad." Unlike missiles that can strike in 30 minutes or less, bombers need hours to reach their targets and hence do not represent a first-strike threat against the Soviets. Moreover...