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And a crucial guarantor of growth, they will as always argue, is the maintenance of social stability.

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The Department of Health and Human Services just announced Social Services and Income Maintenance Benefits Enrollment Coordination Grants to support benefits enrollment outreach and assistance.

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Now, the auto repair and maintenance industry is using social media to overhaul its Millennial outreach strategies.

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On Wednesday, news that the duck had been temporarily deflated for maintenance drew anguished responses across social media.

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Concrete cancer, poor maintenance and the vandalism of social discontent have had their way - down it will come.

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While Chavez has spent enormous sums on social programs, many complain the government has overlooked basic maintenance.

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But the University and College Union, which represents lecturers and other staff, said raising tuition fees and scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance would counteract any attempt to improve social mobility.

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While the Maintenance of Parents Act, and the general social pressure to take care of the elderly within the family, has so far ensured most Singaporean senior citizens, there are signs of change in the social fabric.

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But critics have accused the firm of neglecting maintenance as it funnels oil revenue into government social programmes, especially after an explosion in August at the Amuay refinery, the country's largest, in which 42 people were killed.

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