Word: sustain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There will certainly be no need for a referendum to end the hostage problem. It will be solved much sooner than your question implies. My policy on the hostages embodies an important principle accepted by a growing majority of Iranians: while we must sustain our revolutionary dedication, we cannot afford to bend to street frenzy any more. Frankly, a resolution of the hostage problem is imperative within two months. Despite vexing snags that we could do without, I expect the problem to be resolved in two months or so, shortly after the parliament meets...
...mechanism of IF's defense against viruses has also emerged. Explains Mathilde Krim, a researcher at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: "Interferon is a kind of chemical Paul Revere." When a virus invades a cell, instead of turning out the proteins needed to sustain the cell and other parts of the body, the manufacturing plant begins to produce carbon copies of the virus. Eventually bloated with the alien bodies, the cell almost literally comes apart at the seams and dies, spilling out its cargo of new viruses, which promptly move toward healthy cells to repeat the process...
...heroines race to see who can lose her virginity first. But Director Ronald F. Maxwell, who has done superior TV work (PBS's Verna: U.S.O. Girl), settles for slogging his way through a threadbare script. Writers Kimi Peck and Dalene Young do not know how to sustain their story beyond the initial exposition, and they are not much better at writing characters. The two teenagers' love interests (Armand Assante and Matt Dillon) are such bland hunks that the stars must play the romantic scenes in a near vacuum. Most of the campers are stereotypes out of Meatballs...
Credit controls and a balanced budget are Carter's methods of limiting demand. The balanced budget is a fetish likely to accomplish little. Carter himself points out that every budget but one since 1961 has run a deficit--yet we managed to sustain minimal inflation during many of those years. The $13 billion Carter wants to cut from the budget--even the $18 billion in cuts he mistakenly promised his national television audience--would not significantly cut inflation. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, has said that "in a two-to-three-trillion dollar a year economy...
...doctor says Earle Spring should be allowed to die. Spring's wife and son concur. So does a probate court judge. Yet last week Spring, 78, who is senile, was still receiving the kidney dialysis treatments that sustain his life, while Justice Francis J. Quirico, of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, tried to decide if there was any new evidence to justify reopening arguments on whether Spring himself would prefer to die. Quirico's decision could be important for the increasing numbers of Americans who, though severely ill like Spring, could be kept alive for years by modern...