Word: maintaining
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Which is apparently the same attitude Postal Service employees maintain. If you work at the Central Square Post Office, you know what it is to be busy all the time. Busy, busy, busy. So busy that you'll let the phone ring 14 times before you answer it. So busy that when the caller's questions are non-mail-service-oriented, you only have three things to say: "Yes, the Post Office is the most difficult job. I can't talk about it. I really don't have the time...
...Nancy, the President now "pays court to the Washington establishment." Representing those on the political fringes of society, Phillips finds any politician who fails to divide the world into starkly contrasting good and evil camps treasonously willing to sacrifice the country's best interest in order to maintain the immoral status...
...bullets: they are both used indiscriminately," says a former army officer who, like most Haitians, is fearful of reprisals if his name is seen in print. While Washington has called on Namphy to provide a "free, fair and secure electoral process," a U.S. official concedes, "We frankly don't maintain much hope that they will do the right thing." In Haiti, a consensus is rapidly building: the Namphy junta must...
...when Reagan arrived in Reykjavik, hoping to put the finishing touches on an INF treaty, he found himself confronted instead with yet another Gorbachev blockbuster. Gone was the offer of an interim INF agreement that would allow the U.S. to maintain some missiles in Europe for a limited period. In its place was the zero option, which would meet the long-standing Soviet objective of keeping all American missiles off the Continent. As before, having originally proposed the zero option, the Administration felt it could not reject it at Reykjavik...
While some maintain that foams pose a seriousthreat, others are more optimistic...