Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employees labeled the episode "a severe blow against 35 years of Stern credibility." About 100 staffers staged a sit-in at Stern's offices to protest the hiring of Gross and Scholl-Latour because their jobs would merge business and editorial control and because they supposedly would not sustain the magazine's liberal tradition...
...spread of Marxist-Leninist revolution. But as usual, covert action carries heavy risks. For one, the operation could prove unsuccessful, leaving a sediment of anti-American feelings. For another, the domestic debate over covert action is costing Reagan valuable political capital. The question now is whether the U.S. can sustain its covert operation long enough to wear down the Sandinistas or, failing in that, develop an overt response that will accomplish the same end. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Christopher Redman/ Washington
...songs, composed with manifest, even urgent sincerity, and lanced with fugitive wit, not only caught the fantasies of a generation but got them airborne. Now there is no telling for certain which ended first, the dreams or the band. In any case, more than love was needed to sustain them all. That was the hardest lesson learned...
Checkhov's paring away of the essential elements of the plot contains the germ of his genius, but it can also make dramatic tension difficult to sustain. As all attention is focused on the actors, it is sometimes difficult to retain audience interest through the lengthy and introspective soliloquies...
...roles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern present a unique difficulty--while at times interchangeable, the characters must create enough tension to sustain interest. The actors handle this problem well: Both bearded and flashing sparkling eyes, they at once mesh with and foil each other. Kelner's quizzical manner provides the needed contrast to Torres' air of blank amusement...