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keeping

noun as in custody

noun as in consistency

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Nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers have been working without pay for weeks, resulting in high levels of fatigue and stress among staff tasked with keeping the skies safe while wrestling with personal financial pressures.

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Community organizers say many Hispanic residents are changing their daily patterns for fear of being detained: Patients are skipping doctors’ appointments, and parents are keeping their children home from school.

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He played an influential role in keeping Bush's tax policies conservative, and rolling back environmental protections that were hampering American businesses.

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In 2012, Shankar was moved to a new enclosure that left him virtually in solitary confinement - despite a 2009 federal ban on keeping elephants alone for more than six months.

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Cook said “every meeting, including December’s, is a live meeting,” signaling that Fed officials are keeping their options open for the final policy decision of the year.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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