Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold, with the royal coat of arms on the bow and the royal cipher on the stern. The yacht's 12,000-h.p. twin-shaft turbine engines are capable of propelling her 5,769 gross tonnage at a sprightly 21 knots. Her 510-ton fuel capacity can sustain a 2,800-mile voyage without stopover...
...maintaining separate editorial staffs.* After five discussions, the idea was abandoned. Says Shepley: "They had projections of profit margins and benefits to their paper that they wanted to ensure. We weren't able to work out a way to meet their requirements and at the same time to sustain the Star...
...college degrees. But he adds new dimensions to the usual discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class men had a real modulating effect," he quotes one expert as saying. "It made it much easier to sustain discipline. It was nice for a lowerclass kid to outmarch a college grad. They can't do that anymore, because the college kids aren't there." And more than nice--a representative military helped America to see its defenders as honorable, not unfortunate, and perhaps made the country more reluctant...
...word of the misstatements began to spread, Cranston counted the number of Lefever supporters in the full Senate dropping from 46 to 44, while opponents rose from 39 to 48. That was enough to sustain a filibuster against Lefever on the Senate floor, and probably enough to guarantee the failure of the nomination...
...question for Lucas is whether he can sustain his idealism in an envious and highly competitive field, where success is usually measured by the bottom line. For Disney, Utopia turned into creative stasis and the once vaulting fantasies gave way to the commercialized thrills of Disneyland. If Lucas can preserve himself from commercial temptation, he may yet realize his larger ambition, which is to use the profits from his popular movies for more experimental work. "I want to push film further and still get some emotional pull," he says...