The property came furnished, and Nazarian kept everything the same, down to the picture frames and the white-ostrich upholstery and the loofah she left in the tub.
For the first decade, factory owners armed with this new power kept everything the same in factories and used electrical motors to drive the same power trains.
In other words, if we vote that New York should get a $300 million increase, the city shouldn't be able to take out $300 million of its own money and say, 'Well, we kept everything the same.' " But Mr. Bloomberg, who proposed sharp cuts in the school budget earlier this year, has not been willing to commit to a more stable framework for financing the schools.
When Stefan Hemming, the current owner -- and a fan and an acquaintance of Liberace's who had visited the house as a guest -- purchased the estate after Liberace's death in 1987, he tried to "keep everything the same, as much as possible," he said.
"You can't say, 'I'm going to charge double and keep everything the same,' " Mr. Hines said.
Perhaps they believe that by bringing Mr Berlusconi back to power they can invert this maxim and keep everything the same in order to promote reform.
Jose told me, "I pray for safety, for good luck, and for my family, to keep us here and to keep everything the same".
Inexorable economic and social forces will gradually impose their alterations, and the bureaucracy and political system will adapt: they will have to, even if the aim is merely to keep everything the same.
Even as governments may have an investment in wanting to keep everything the same – and the same folks in power – regular people are always moving, inventing, coming up with new ideas under the table.
"You could say, 'Just keep everything the same and add on top of it,' but it's not that simple," said Phillips, who added that the Mets would not lower their payroll next season.
But how many homebuyers purchase a new place and keep everything the same?
