Word: maintaining
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Students also questioned the political considerations of the fund cuts. "They (the U.S. State Department) could maintain relations with the satellite countries," Joyce Jacobson '82 said yesterday...
...most publicized fiasco was Clark's promise that he would move the Canadian embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, the city where most Western countries, including the U.S., maintain their diplomatic missions. Clark's proposal was calculated to attract Jewish votes in several key Toronto districts, but once in office he backed down after Arab nations threatened economic reprisals against Canada. A pledge to lower taxes also went by the board when the Tories belatedly concluded that this would add to the government's deficit and stimulate inflation. To get off the hook, Clark claimed that...
Reagan could only wince and explain that his was a "national candidacy" as he watched the returns roll in from the farm precincts of Iowa. "I'm in a different state every day--I've got a national constituency, and I've got to work to maintain that. George Bush had to stake his all on the early win," he said...
Turner suggested the CIA maintain self-imposed regulations, only to be bypassed when events demand it--"In such circumstances," Turner testified, "internal regulations (of the CIA) permit waivers of the general prohibition against the use of these groups. I have granted those waivers on rare occasions...
...were first-rate. That was the point. "I don't know of any headaches right now," said the man who is the minister of a tiny (91-member) United Methodist Church. "I'm convinced that everything is as well set up as it can be. If we maintain our flexibility, it should function fine...