This one, started in 1978, isn't particularly early and has anyway been maintained and expanded over the years.
Over the past decade, state companies have maintained and expanded control over industries like automobiles, aviation, chemicals, energy, information technology, machinery, metals, steel and telecommunications.
Blatter himself is a canny autocrat who has maintained and expanded his power with Boss Tweed-style tactics, as alleged in "Foul!," a new book by the British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings.
In her new year's message, Frances O'Grady also pressed the government to ensure workers' rights are maintained and expanded as the UK prepares to leave the EU, and warned of the threat of "bad bosses" using Brexit to water down rules such as protections from working excessive hours.
Mass transportation systems were maintained and expanded with government subsidies, and public policies kept central areas strong or fostered suburban growth in carefully designed higher-density nodes, in some cases (particularly in Britain and Sweden) in the form of systematically designed new towns linked to older central cities by high-quality mass transit lines.
Additionally, practical operation shows that the system has good encapsulation and is easily maintained and expanded.
"Gain, maintain and expand — that's the strategy," he said.
They could not afford to maintain and expand service without mingling their resources.
Capriles, who mostly attacked Maduro for not being Chávez, pledged to maintain and expand the misiones.
"This is another revenue stream that helps us maintain and expand what we already do during challenging economic times".
But the student had to be willing to learn, and to maintain and expand the relationships he inherited.
