Word: maintaining
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...weren't able to oversee [the business] properly." So, at roughly 10,000-strong, C. Hoare & Co.'s customer base has reached its limits. Those that do make it in tend to be very well-heeled: investment portfolios at the bank average $1.5 million, while basic account holders maintain balances of anywhere from $2 million in the black to similar amounts in the red. But it's not enough to be rich. Clients must also "be extremely well introduced and have impeccable credentials," says Hoare. New money may be hotly courted elsewhere, but not here. "Our policy on Russians...
...financial disconnect has brought to light fundamental disagreements about how the initiative’s growth should proceed. While some of the initiative’s members say the University has reneged on its promise to maintain the project’s momentum, central administrators say the imbalance stems from overzealous expansion that lacked budgetary caution...
...Instead of maintaining the clause that abortion should remain rare, and thus placing a cloud of moral doubt over the procedure, pro-choice Americans should view abortion as morally acceptable. This is the only way to maintain consistency between the morality and legality of abortion. Abraham Lincoln made this same argument when he responded to Stephen Douglas in their famous debates. Douglas supported federal neutrality on the slavery issue, while claiming to be personally ambivalent on whether slavery was right or wrong, which Lincoln called an untenable moral position. Lincoln argued that it was only reasonable for the federal government...
...think within the Caucus of Chairs there have been quite divided opinions about the utility of divisional deans,” the chair said. “There are some people who aren’t sure whether it’s a good idea to maintain the divisional deans...
...Since its inception in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992, and largely due to the powerful influence of the conservative German Budnesbank, the ECB’s main charter goal is not to ensure growth (and the political survival of politicians in office). Rather, it is to “maintain price stability...