Word: maintains
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Although Harvard put its first runner on in five out of the seven innings, two double plays and a fine play by left fielder Slezak enabled Shoop to maintain his shutout...
Allio makes the transition less easily than Glucksman and his Idol isn't as comfortable in front of the crowds. And while Glucksman manages to maintain a shadow of the passion of the original Catherine, Allio's Heathcliffe comes off somewhat mechanical...
...Blacks simply want a show of support, then there are less risky ways to do this, like gradually tightening economic sanctions. These are policies which maintain U.S. leverage and do not dangerously destabilize the country. If Blacks want a U.S. policy which exerts greater pressure on whites to reform, then there are again less drastic and risky policies than total disinvestment...
...days before World War I, Woodrow Wilson decided he had it up to here with a bunch of goons who seized power in Mexico. Much as in Nicaragua, a broad-based revolution toppled the government of an aging, long-ruling dictator, but its democratic elements could not maintain power and were soon pushed out by extremists. While the revolution in Nicaragua was pushed to the left, though, the revolution in Mexico was coopted by elements on the extreme right...
Reagan is making the same mistakes today in Nicaragua. He is enabling a faltering, repressive Sandinista regime to maintain its hold on the people by allowing it to wrap itself in the Nicaraguan flag as a band of Yankee-supported brigands invade its turf...