Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons industry is virtually under siege by its critics. And no wonder. Operating secretively behind a screen of national security for more than four decades, the bombmakers have single-mindedly, sometimes recklessly, pursued their goal: to churn out all the warheads the military believes, perhaps prudently, are needed to maintain the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Now they are being charged with ignoring the dangers that their operation of deteriorating facilities may have inflicted on the very citizens they were supposed to protect. Ohio's Senator John Glenn summed up the situation with ironic clarity: "We are poisoning our people...
Democrats now hold an eight-seat majority in the Senate, and unless there is a big Republican sweep in November, they should maintain control. There are 33 seats at stake, 18 Democratic and 15 Republican. TIME's assessment...
...case, the Head of the Charles Regatta Committee and the Metropolitan District Committee maintain a staunch no-drinking policy on the banks and the river. Three hundred police members will be on hand to confiscate or destroy any alcohol...
Frye says that he will continue to promote Middle Eastern studies after his retirement, as he wishes to maintain his committment to the area, but adds that he hopes future generations of teachers and researchers will want to study the region, as well...
During the question and answer period, students questioned MIT's ethics, citing examples such as the large volume of defense contracts work done at the Institute. Chomsky said the military's purpose was "to maintain U.S. global dominance...at the expense of the Third World," but added that any change in this priority had to come from society, not the university...