Word: maintained
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...admirable desire to maintain political stability and laudable effort to ensure that the atrocities of Europe's past aren't repeated does not annul the fact that the Austrian coalition parties were democratically elected and have yet to use any extra-democratic means in establishing their new government. Hence, to apply sanctions and politically isolate the nation before the coalition government has done anything tangibly wrong is to put the diplomatic cart before the horse and to undermine the very principles of democracy the E.U. seeks to uphold. Moreover, at the present time the E.U.'s actions are themselves...
...anyone else. The signs had been clear for years that Europe intended to continue giving preferential status to bananas from its former colonies. An investment report prepared in October 1990 by the Wall Street firm of Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc., predicted that Europe, contrary to Chiquita's hopes, would maintain the status quo for years to come...
Both McCain and Bush have tried to maintain quietly pro-life positions that won't alienate moderate and independent voters, but on Wednesday, McCain tripped over his own straddle. A reporter aboard McCain's rolling political salon hit him with a tough "hypothetical": What would he do if his 15-year-old daughter were pregnant and wanted to get an abortion? He made the mistake of answering it, then flubbing it, saying first that his daughter would have the "final decision"--a suspiciously pro-choice position for a pro-life candidate--and then, in a clarification issued soon after, that...
...Hewlett Packard computer, a color printer and $5-a-month Internet access via UUNet in a worldwide program beginning in April. The program will be reviewed after three years. "Ford has had very good labor relations over the past decade, and this remarkable initiative is certainly going to help maintain the loyalty of their workforce," says TIME business correspondent Frank Gibney. "It also helps the company's plan to project itself as a major force on the Internet, and to ensure the widest possible computer literacy among its employees. It's a magnanimous gesture that Ford could afford right...
...Florida, until the state rendered the arguments moot by replacing electrocution with the more popular (and, its supporters argue, more "humane") lethal injection as its chief method of execution. Tarver's lawyers are hoping Alabama won't use the same strategy to expedite their client's execution; they maintain Tarver, who is black, was denied a jury of his peers. Eleven of the jurors who convicted him were white, and one was black...