Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, council members voted to ban commercial parking garages and maintain a previous ordinance which prohibits expansion of retail space...
...safety aboard makeshift rafts. The flood damage is estimated to run at $24 billion, and 5.5 million homes have been destroyed. More importantly, the floods may have dashed the country's hopes of reaching its economic growth targets -- a deeply troubling scenario in an economy which has to maintain an 8 percent growth rate in order to absorb the millions rendered unemployed by the closure of inefficient state enterprises...
...Still a Man's World. Men make war, run the government and maintain sole custody of the remote control. They also cause the most political trouble: the Keating Five, Abscam, Iran-contra. Martha Mitchell tried to insert herself into Watergate but got stuck with a hypodermic needle and put to bed before we could hear much from...
...staff Leon Panetta. Even more damaging, Clinton has been holding his political capital in reserve for the potential impeachment battles on the Hill. He can't risk the bruising negotiations it takes to pass a bill or resort to the bully pulpit to push his agenda because he must maintain cordial relations with the Congress that may soon be his judge and jury. "It's just a reality," says Panetta. "It's playing with his mind. Deep down in his own gut, it's there...
...Even though Saddam's provocation seems to play into the hands of Washington's attempts to maintain U.N. sanctions against Iraq, it may actually help Baghdad, says TIME reporter Stuart Stogel. After all, Saddam's international sympathy reached an all-time high earlier this year when he was under threat of U.S. military action. In that sense, if the U.S. Navy didn't exist, Saddam might be equally inclined to invent...