Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...
Student enrollments have shown a slight upturn in the past few years, but the student-faculty ratio remains low. Some departments complain that they have too few students to sustain their research and seminars, the Strauch Committee reported. In order to remedy the imbalance, the committee recommended an increase in student admissions...
...attend the Big Party? Who will become the new head of the Windermans once the old man is gone? The answers are not as predictable as they appear, nor are the Windermans. Graves aptly demonstrates that the well- trodden ground of John O'Hara and J.P. Marquand can still sustain a surprising amount of plant and animal life...
...guerrilla force has ever toppled a Marxist regime, and the Nicaraguan contras are not about to become the first. But popular disaffection with the Sandinistas guarantees the contras a steady supply of new recruits, and renewed U.S. aid will give the rebels the means to sustain a long, fitful insurgency...
...year sales was 15,000. There are now more than 150,000 hard-cover copies in print. "It was a pleasure to be wrong," Turnbull admits. "The world now knows that we have maturity and competence." Adds Shoemaker: "Up till now we had yet to prove that we could sustain an effort and back up a best seller. Son of the Morning Star has shown that with a staff of only ten we can keep up with trade demand and follow through with a first-rate promotional effort...