Word: maintaining
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...Florida Straits. The Saipan has 14 helicopters equipped for plucking accident survivors out of the sea. The Coast Guard has ten vessels and at least eight helicopters on similar duty. More than 800 Marines were also flown from North Carolina's Camp Lejeune to Key West to help maintain order...
...long as Washington and Moscow are at odds over Afghanistan, there is little chance of progress on other issues. The U.S. is likely to maintain its embargo on grain and advanced technology sales to the U.S.S.R. Though Washington last week approved Moscow's purchase of $5 million in American equipment for oil drilling in the northwest Pacific, the Administration claims that no highly sophisticated technology is involved. What also is likely to remain frozen is SALT II. When asked about the nuclear arms treaty at the confirmation hearings, Muskie said that Senate ratification is "an impossibility at this point...
Should some fortuitous combination of circumstances allow CDAS and company in to the reactor area, it is unlikely the siege would last long. How, short of guns and physical violence, would protesters maintain a presence if police wanted them out? Continuous arrests, continuous gassing, even a simple counter blockade to cut off food supplies--the prospects are not good. Napoleon Bonaparte, a man with credentials in the field, once remarked, "It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it." The New Hampshire police...
...shock is one explanation--police have a harder time beating a person who is standing his ground without resisting than they do a plywood-wielding opponent. Not that they won't beat and arrest and oppress; American history proves that they will. But it may be harder to maintain a campaign of terror for psychological reasons alone...
...sure, there's nothing wrong with middle age, but it comes hard to a person who is a child prodigy by profession. Of course, I have never permitted myself to act old, or to admit to being old or even middle-aged in public. I maintain always that I am 'a little over thirty' and that I am 'in my late youth.' " The book may tell more than anyone wanted to ask about the life of America's most accomplished explainer. But it does it so disarmingly that readers should be almost as fascinated...