("An innovator by nature, Betty was never happy with maintaining the status quo").
He tells a happy story, maintaining a tone of rugged cheerfulness throughout, though he does allow for some pain and admits a few major failures.
Energy companies, perhaps more than most, tread a fine line in terms of keeping investors happy, while maintaining good relations with their customers.
As about two hundred years of American history have shown, keeping them happy -- maintaining political harmony in the cityscape -- requires nothing less than a political machine.
Instead, being happy and maintaining engagement with life despite limitations should be encouraged.
National says it is happy to maintain funding for Maori schools and hospitals in the name of choice.
That puts us in the netherworld of insider trading because the research arm of a broker generates valuable information their biggest clients desperately want, and there is enormous pressure to keep them happy to maintain the flow of trading commissions.
But despite its original mission to critique if everything is awesome, it's became as bland a ballad as last year's most memorable nominated song (Happy) to maintain the status quo.
Over the past decade, ticket prices have swelled, along with the franchise player's head, as the Knicks indulged him every which way to make him happy and maintain their illusion of contention.
Happy to maintain the status quo on the domestic front ("Read my lips: no new taxes", he had said in 1988 – a promise he was later to break), Bush concentrated on foreign policy, namely dismantling the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe and overthrowing Panama's corrupt leader, Manuel Noriega.
