Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't feel that we were all that radical and I always felt just semi-committed--not doing all that I could. We continually presented unpopular speakers that to some people were scandalous and we always tried to maintain contact with those elements of the Church which represented the poor and the oppressed." --Richard J, Griffin...
...extremely skinny--not svelte, but unnaturally thin. She starved herself torturously to achieve and maintain her underweight state. She ignored the hunger pangs in her stomach and she denied to her family and friends that she was hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows...
Still, Athens' physical distance poses problems. Some companies plan to maintain their presence in the Middle East by regularly sending executives on prolonged trips through the area. Others will eventually open small branch offices in Amman, Cairo or other cities...
...International Frisbee Association meeting in December, team representatives from across the country unanimously voted to maintain the "no-referee" game rule. The rule seems to work fairly well; violation calls were disputed only four times at yesterday's match...
...thesis and not even much of a definite focus. Some sections read as though they were stuck in only because W&B had the dope. This approach is fine if you are trying, as in a newspaper, only to generate information, but a book needs more purpose to maintain a sense of itself. The result here is choppy construction and a feeling of aimlessness in the sections where the sequence of events doesn't provide unity. For this reason, day-to-day narrative in Part II is much tighter than the beginning of the book and makes for better reading...