Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foundation representatives "have been unequivocal in stating their intention to sustain the program for three years," said Jay Winston, director of the SPH's Center for Health Communication. Harvard will continue to donate to the program in kind, but does not plan direct financial support, he added...
...front- page stories on Iran-contra appeared containing only the thinnest and most speculative of new material, just enough to generate a headline and to provide a hook on which to hang a rehash of the same old stories. In this manner the issue seemed to be able to sustain itself as big news, almost regardless of the emergence of new material...
...another problem is attracting an audience large enough or dedicated enough to sustain Rear Window's off-the-wall programming. Kleiler attributes the difficulty in attracting a college audience to the lower attention span of our generation. "College kids have no interest in the past, in movies more than two years old. I wouldn't blame this on TV and VCRs; it's more of a general trend--in books, media as a whole...
Gross should have spent less time worrying about shock value and more time getting performances that are expressive enough to sustain the play's angst and tension for nearly three hours. In that length of time, none of the women can find any way to express nervousness other than clutching at their skirts, or any way to express happiness other than pirouetting...
...chances of success could be as low as 1 in 100. Instead, with the firm declaration "I want to do it," Reagan traveled the extra mile down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol to plead personally with Senate Republicans for the single vote he needed to sustain his veto...