Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet state anthem ring out in Russian from radios across the vast country. They are heard by reindeer-herding Chukchi tribesmen in Siberia, Buryat farmers near the Mongolian border and Estonian fishermen by the Baltic Sea. The words project an illusion of homogeneity that Moscow finds increasingly difficult to maintain...
...committee of students, faculty and administrators concludes a brief period of wrangling over the status of the group, which was formed in October to coordinate undergraduate efforts for a student center. Administrators originally suggested that the Undergraduate Council assume SCSC's intended role, but the group wanted to maintain independent status...
Harvard hopes to maintain its edge in the Ivy League after winning five of six overtime contests last year. Dooley predicts the league will be equally strong this year...
...widespread conviction that the regime cannot survive for long -- at best until the rice harvest early next year. The government has virtually no foreign reserves. Exports have almost vanished. Western governments and Japan have cut off all their assistance, which is necessary to supply the military and maintain the decrepit industrial plant, while ethnic insurgents are applying pressure along the borders. "Logically, the government cannot hold on," says a young Burmese intellectual. "Unfortunately, there's not much logic in this government...
...rule. Rejecting the socialist policies associated with her father, Bhutto proposes to end poverty through economic growth rather than by taxing the rich. At the same time, she has made it clear that there will be no witch- hunts in the army if she is elected. Bhutto promises to maintain good relations with the U.S. and says she will uphold Pakistan's pledge to aid the mujahedin rebels in Afghanistan. Alliance candidates, for their part, intend to play on bad memories among Pakistanis of her father's administration, which ended in turmoil after the government allegedly rigged elections...