Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were elected president, Du Pont said hiseconomic priorities would be to maintain lowinflation, second to lower taxes and finally toreduce budget deficits. "I wouldn't trade $23billion off the budget deficit for 10 percentunemployment," he said...
While Wall Street whipsawed wildly last week, America's companies tried to maintain their composure. Though many corporate executives were rattled by what has happened to their firms' stock, and their own personal wealth, since August, most were determined to stay calm and not make any rash moves. Almost no one rushed to slash production or shelve capital-spending plans. But many companies began taking a hard look at their operations, realizing that further market declines could bring on a recession. For companies that had been planning to issue new stock or for young firms hoping to go public...
...maintain collections that are useful for research, this is not tied to what is taught," he said...
centralization of power, to "maintain the control over violence that is essential to carry through major reforms." (p. 20) Huntington argued that some form of "enlightened despotism" might help reduce white opposition to change in South Africa, but even more firmly, he suggested the government should repress three types of violence: revolutionary, spontaneous and backlash. "No reform occurs without violence...Within limits reform and repression may proceed hand-in hand...The government that is too weak to monopolize counter-revolutionary repression is also too weak to inaugurate counter-revolutionary reform...
...after all. (8) Rather than moving swiftly to impose piecemeal, limited reforms, he found, the South African government has moved slowly, raising expectations it did not meet and allowing debate to occur along with revolutionary violence. The government appeared to respond to pressure, thus appearing vulnerable. It failed to maintain the security Huntington viewed as so crucial to implementing limited reform; and it alienated large sections of the business community from its reform coalition. As a result, Huntington says, the situation has completely changed. Today, even if the government "followed my recommendations on strategy," it could not "conceivably carry...