Word: maintains
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Experts at the College Board maintain a formula officially known as the Institutional Methodology, but commonly referred to as the IM, which is the basis for figuring out how much money a family can afford to put towards a college education...
...similar approach, Marriott International offers a 24-hour, toll-free hot line manned by social workers to give employees assistance with and referrals for almost any problem. This can include anything from tips on how to maintain a budget to advice on how to handle a child being expelled from school, to what to do if your house burns down. The hot line costs about $1 million annually to operate. It saves Marriott about $4 million in reduced absenteeism and lower turnover...
There are no reasonably accurate estimates on the amount of money states shovel out. That's because few want you to know. Some say they maintain no records. Some say they don't know where the files are. Some say the information is not public. All that's certain is that the figure is in the many billions of dollars each year--and it is growing, when measured against the subsidy...
...moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative identities. This apolitical tribalism is self-perpetuating. When you're trying to end a war or overthrow "Amerika," your cry is "Join us!" When you're trying to maintain a semioriginal identity, popularization is a threat to the purity of the tribe...
...that John Glenn is safely back on terra firma, he and the rest of the Discovery crew are doing the best they can to maintain America?s renewed interest in the space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International...