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If the Federal Reserve keeps its short-term interest rate target near zero until next year, as most officials of the central bank expect, it will have maintained the zero-interest-rate policy for seven years.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2014

When Hauptmann crosses from the jail to the jam-packed courthouse on Jan. 2, he will have maintained under considerable pressure a dogged three-month insistence on his innocence.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the plan as it stands at present has been accomplished within a long lifetime, Chicago will have maintained her reputation for swift action.

From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Street, Julian