Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point is, convenient "deep attachments" aside, corporations cannot be relied on to uphold their responsibility to communities that sustain them. The 60-day notification measure simply ensures that they will...
...praises PBH for encouraging 60 percent of Harvard undergraduates to volunteer their time; but he didn't do a thing when PBH was forced to cut its budget by 56 percent. Colprep, a PBH tutoring project for local high school students, will be able to sustain its services only if it can raise the $1500 it lost in this year's budget cuts. To whom will Colprep turn for these funds? Not the $4.5 billion-endowed Harvard, but the Boston public schools...
...artistic growth had been stunted, by both the | demand for new product in two mediums and the creeping conservatism that afflicts almost any burgeoning corporation. Yet Disney was always a visionary entrepreneur; he still had magic to do. In the 1950s Disney made three business decisions that would sustain his company until the Eisner years. Decades later, they would profoundly affect the movie business...
Wall Street had to wait until the 9:30 a.m. opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange to display the full force of its displeasure, and then the Dow started 45 points below Wednesday's close. Traders tried to sustain a morning rally, but by midafternoon, prices were falling across the Big Board. At the end of the day, the Dow was down 101.46 points, its fifth worst drop in history...
...victory for the peace process and get out. The Sandinistas' attempt to knock out the contras' remaining major supply base a week before peace talks were due to resume suggests that Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega is no more interested in compromise than is the President. If Congress refuses to sustain the contras any longer, it must still come to terms with Reagan, or his successor, on a policy to contain the Sandinistas and foster democratic reforms in Nicaragua...