Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have good reason to fear the KGB [Feb. 14]. As your story points out, the KGB manages to sustain the illusion of being all-powerful "largely because Soviet citizens police one another." A society that reveres a child who turned in his father to the authorities is right out of George Orwell...
Spinney is now a beleaguered figure. He has been taken off broad program analysis and assigned to study nitpicking details. He has been told not to discuss his theories with colleagues. Whether he has enough outside interests to sustain him is doubtful. Apart from admitting a passion for sailing, he will not discuss his personal life in any detail, apparently viewing it as irrelevant to the costs of weapons systems. He is divorced from his first wife, who got custody of their two children, and is remarried to a computer specialist named Alison who has borne him two more youngsters...
...free market" has also proven inadequate to stimulate domestic energy production. Higher prices have admittedly moved the oil companies to step up their drilling, but exorbitant levels are needed to sustain even a modest amount of new exploration. The relatively small drop in imported oil prices since December, 1981 (slightly less than $6 per barrel) has caused the number of rigs in operation to drop by more than half. Once again, specific regulatory action--such as subsidies for oil exploration and development of alternate energy sources--would be more effective and less damaging than a hamhanded oil import...
...existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been unfairly assigned; now they were doing their best to do good and get out. As the Viet Nam War staggered to a close and M*A*S*H generated the momentum any TV series needs to sustain its quality after the first few seasons, the show revealed itself as a gritty romance about the finest American instincts. Here were gruff pragmatism, technical ingenuity, grace under pressure, the saving perspective of wit. The men and women of 4077 MASH could be seen as us at our worst hour, finding the best...
...storyline. The standard comedic treatment of psychiatry as a profession--which makes Saul Benjamin, the Dudley Moore character, slowly turn as nutty as most of his patients, while the script simultaneously mocks all other psychiatrists with their idiosyncracies--falls flat this time because each gag seems isolated, expected to sustain itself. Benjamin's patient merely represent all the familiar crazies of past sitcoms, such as the patient who thinks he is a bird or the frustrated middle-aged woman who drones on and on. One particularly bizarre patient, who collects trash and wears paper foil to shield himself from...