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Word: maintaining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essential to understand the reasons the Russians have adopted this strategy. In order to maintain popularity, they must minimize Russian troop casualties. It is easy to condemn this strategy and its real and atrocious human cost, but it is not unlike American justification for the use of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities during WWII. Moreover, as in all wars with guerrilla fighters, it is often hard to tell Chechen rebels from ordinary villagers...

Author: By Charles C. De simone, | Title: Chechen Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

They charge that the two organizations maintain business associations with the companies they are supposed to monitor...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Chants, Marches Way Across the Square | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Already one loss down on the weekend, Niagara (9-5-1, 5-5-0) seemed to be skating defensively throughout the game, allowing the Crimson to maintain possession both in and out of its offensive zone...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger and Maureen B. Shannon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Hockey Sweeps Niagra | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...dozen businesses, ranging from the Pete Rose Ballpark Cafe to his Hit King line of clothing; and become a regular on the baseball-memorabilia circuit, where his income has derived primarily from signing bats, balls and baseball cards. Throughout his wanderings in the baseball wilderness, he has continued to maintain that he never bet on the game, as if willing himself to believe his own revisionary history. In large part, baseball and its fans chose not to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thorn in Pete Rose | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...pains to avoid the females' hoopskirts (their costumes are appropriately gaudy, but slightly oversized for the space allowed). Accordingly, director Marisa Echeverria's '00 choreography is fairly simplistic, an acquiescence to the space limitations, as she appropriately chooses to focus more on the production's musical aspects rather than maintain lofty production values...

Author: By James Crawford, | Title: Pinafore Your Thoughts | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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