Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardware, though the Reagan Administration has made frequent accusations that significant numbers of weapons are being clandestinely supplied to the guerrillas by Nicaragua. According to some leftist sources, the main reason the insurgents failed to launch an expected offensive in mid-January was that their ammunition stocks could not sustain both a major attack and a longer-range war of attrition...
...want to establish a strong committment to women's athletics," said Brown University athletic director John Parry. The round-robin system is "a purer way to define a champion" He added, "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games, that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens if the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...business trips and sanitorium stops: he hesitated about leaving his job with the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, despite the drain on his energies and the interference with his creative work; and finally, in his relationships with women, to whom he was naturally attractive, he hesitated repeatedly, unable to sustain in person the epistolary intimacies he handled so well. It was in this last area that Kafka felt most inadequate, most overshadowed by his father; although he believed that the greatest human duty was to have a family, he could never allow himself to intrude on his father's domain. Also...
...absolutely finished and run down," he said later. "I have more problems than the hairs on my head." Then, in his last major interview before the military takeover, Lech Walesa talked to TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik about his work, his hopes and discouragements, and the forces that drive and sustain him. It was an extraordinarily personal and revealing conversation that went on for 90 minutes. Excerpts...
...spent $8,000 for wallpaper, $10,000 for carpeting and $16,000 for furniture. His is not an extreme case. After installing new blue carpeting in his office, another legislator tossed out his set of California statute books in red bindings and ordered a new edition in blue. To sustain themselves during their budget-cutting marathons, the lawmakers spent $7,950 in one month on catered meals, $574 on ice cream, $3,400 on bottled water...