Word: maintaining
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...question now is who will be next, a question which reportedly is dividing the Administration itself. Some advisers are said to be counselling that Reagan maintain his support for the Judge until the Senate votes, and then appoint another brash conservative, one with less clips than the prolific Bork. They want to force a confrontation with the Senate. In an off-the-cuff remark Tuesday, Reagan vowed to do just that...
Yohe is currently only 47 yards shy of 10th place on the Harvard singleseason yardage list. If the signalcaller were to maintain his 241 yards per game average this Saturday against Dartmouth (if anything a conservative estimate given the Big Green's sorry defense), Yohe would rest in seventh place after only five games of the season...
Wittwer and his co-authors maintain that most of the progress took place after 1978, when Deng began economic reforms by breaking up collective farms and introducing market incentives into agriculture. Since that time, per capita food consumption has risen by almost...
...campaign treasurer, asserts, "We've taken a body blow, but we're going to make sure the campaign is a success." Perhaps. Campaigning across Iowa Friday, Dukakis brought up the subject voluntarily at almost every stop, portraying himself as a man who had taken painful but decisive action to maintain his integrity. Many voters seemed forgiving. But in New Hampshire, where he has been leading, a quick poll showed a 10% drop in the number of voters who view him favorably...
...plunge in officially. To the embarrassment of her supporters, Schroeder burst into tears and had to be comforted by her husband James for a full minute before she could continue with her announcement. Schroeder gave a number of reasons for staying out, among them that she could not maintain personal contact with voters. Said she: "I could not bear to turn every human contact into a photo opportunity." Schroeder would have been a long shot, but she could have added color and flair to a bland field...