Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration, although last week he did announce plans to veto a $9.1 billion appropriations bill because the measure included a controversial provision, with troubling civil rights implications, that would bar the Justice Department from seeking court-ordered busing to desegregate schools. When enough House members sided with Carter to sustain his threatened veto, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and other congressional leaders postponed adjournment until this week so that a compromise could be worked...
...World Championship Tennis winner and 1968 US Open winner said Blacks' loan applications to the Small Business Administration frequently request just enough money to sustain their businesses, validating the belief that Blacks have a tendency to ask for only enough money to survive. "Ask for just a little bit more than you need," Ashe said...
...optimism may be difficult to sustain; even Reagan's strongest supporters had their doubts. "Twenty years of mis management is undone, and good old-fashioned capitalism is back," crowed one Oklahoma oilman last week, only to add in the next breath: "Of course, whether Reagan can translate all this into policy is another question...
Neither of the Crimson's other two lines could sustain a potent attack. Coach Rita Harer had Alex Lightfoot between Julie Starr and Sue Yunick while Reed centered Vicki Palmer and Mara MacTaggart. Despite strong individual performances by the forwards, Harvard lacked the stickhandling to penetrate...
...bulk of New-Found-Land consists of a monologue by the younger official that transports the audience from its evening-long sojourn in Britain to a whirlwind tour of the U.S.A. As Arthur, Barry Mann must sustain a vividness of vision and intensity of delivery over the 15-minute speech, as he drags the audience from New York to Chicago to San Francisco, from one cliche of 1930s America to another--Hell's Kitchen, Chicago newsmen, dustbowls, Okies and all. With a wild eye and a remarkable range of voices, Mann holds the audience's attention and summons into...