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Examples
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Basically, once the projects were handed over to the Iraqis, the maintenance on them simply was not upkept.
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Some are abandoned, invaded by grass, and half leveled; the others solidly upkept and bristling with men.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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These are all dangers that are greatly reduced when your parking lot is professionally manintained and upkept with a routine schedule of asphalt sealcoating, crack filling and line striping.
WN.com - Articles related to India adopting new technology to build roads 2010
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Everything from the basic infrastructure (running water, sewer, trash, roads) hasn't been upkept or maintained.
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These are all dangers that are greatly reduced when your parking lot is professionally manintained and upkept with a routine schedule of asphalt sealcoating, crack filling and line striping.
WN.com - Articles related to India adopting new technology to build roads 2010
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Eric: Very cool infinite scrolling. absolutely love this site. the most constantly upkept family site i've ever seen. what a cool family. only tiny negative is i wish it would load faster.
Expecting Rain Whippleworld 2009
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Extremely upkept with warm neutral colors on the main floor!
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Zuev Workers 'Club, and built in the same year (and judging by the photos, it actually gets upkept).
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Florida spent some deep time thinking about this -- some thinking accomplished on the splendidly upkept golf courses that lend verdant beauty to the state* and pretty much no thinking at all accomplished at Disney World ** and finally decided that the best way to protect the children of Florida was not, as one might have expected, to give them large Winnie the Pooh dolls that they could use as shields, or, failing that, at least make guns less accessible to small children, or pay their teachers more money so that quality teachers could be attracted to the schools, or extend library hours.
Speed zones mariness 2005
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And in late autumn there would be a consular election, and Marius would be replaced by someone inimical, and all that he’d have to show for his much-vaunted second consulship was a magnificently upkept road already bearing someone else’s name.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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