Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brumage, president of the Crimson Key Society, said she saw her election as "an opportunity to meet and work with other people and to maintain a sense of community...
However, Councillor Saundra M. Graham said she was concerned the linkage program might not be extensive enough to maintain low-income housing...
...equally powerful coalition is opposed to a global ban. Those few southern African countries -- Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa -- that have not been beset by poachers cull their herds to maintain the elephant populations at optimum levels. That culling produces legally traded ivory. Those countries say a ban would punish them for the corruption and inefficiency of other nations. Ivory traders and retailers, of course, also oppose a comprehensive ban, hoping to save an industry with annual revenues estimated at $500 million to $1 billion worldwide. They are joined by the CITES secretariat, a Lausanne- based bureaucracy that monitors...
...African nations hope for a situation in which moderate demand can be satisfied with legal ivory from controlled culling of elephant herds and natural mortality. That could theoretically keep both the elephant and the ivory industry alive. Such a delicate balance between supply and demand will be difficult to maintain...
...billion, has offered to put $1 billion of his own money into the deal. The rest would come from bank loans. Trump may get the money, but politicians and air-safety experts have alleged that highly leveraged carriers might be tempted to skimp on safety measures to maintain profits. AMR released a statement last week saying it "continues to believe that excess levels of debt in the airline industry are not in the public interest...