Word: maintains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money, South Korea agreed to stringent IMF conditions. The 1998 growth rate must be cut to 3 percent; inflation must be kept below 5 percent; and the current-account deficit must be slashed to within 1 percent of GDP. There's precious little sugar with this medicine ? Seoul must maintain flexible monetary policies and allow temporary hikes in interest rates, says the IMF. A final bitter blow is that foreign investors will be allowed to increase their shareholdings in Korean companies to 50 percent this year ? up from the 26 percent limit currently allowed by the government...
...Maintain good posture without sitting too rigidly. Your body should be relaxed and your weight evenly distributed...
...Frank Cottrell Boyce's script is carefully understated, and director Michael Winterbottom has achieved a remarkably seamless blend of fictional and factual footage. You gain from their work--and from a wonderfully real cast that includes Woody Harrelson--a very powerful impression of a population trying to maintain the small comforts of quotidian routines, common civility, as the only available defense against the surrounding anarchy. And you begin to see the goodness of Henderson's deed not as a carefully considered moral act but as a rather desperate improvisation, an instinctive gesture he needs to make in order to assure...
Familiarity also breeds affection. The aliens still have pretty teeth, ooze slime from every pore and maintain their relentlessly hostile attitude toward all things human. But by now--Alien Resurrection is their fourth screen appearance--there's something funny about their reliable malevolence. It's sort of like Mr. Magoo's nearsightedness; you await its inevitably disastrous consequences with high comic anticipation...
Searle's lawyers maintain that the Degas was legitimately sold by Friedrich Gutmann, not stolen by the Nazis. They also point out that the canvas has been exhibited over the years at major museums around the country, as well as featured in numerous art books, and that their client was unaware of the painting's disputed provenance when he bought it. Asks his lawyer, Howard Trienans: "At what point is it safe for an honest man to buy a painting from a reputable dealer...