Word: sustain
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...percent of the country, including 58 percent of President Bush’s own supporters, say they would only support the war if Saddam had WMD or ties to Al Qaeda—which of course he did not. Bush literally needed voters to believe outright lies to sustain support for his policies...
Music critics often joke that at the end of the world, all that will remain are cockroaches and Keith Richards. But if only one aged talent can sustain music through nuclear holocaust, the world would be safer in the wrinkled, but infallible, hands of Mr. Robert Zimmerman...
...government-sanctioned monopoly gaming enterprise?has fallen in six of the past seven years. Last season's take was 30% lower than in 1997. Says Wong in an e-mail to TIME: "The situation [has] caused real concerns over the long-term ability of the club to sustain its racing operations...
Despite achieving encouraging results in the first few quarters post merger--results easy to attain with one-time cost cutting but hard to sustain--Unisys' cumulative net income in the decade after the merger failed to break even. If you had invested $1 in Burroughs at the end of 1985, that $1--right smack in the middle of one of the greatest stock-market booms in history--would have lost nearly half its value over the subsequent decade. And while Unisys has returned to profitability in recent years, the merger failed to produce a great company...
Moreover, comparison companies--those that failed to make a leap or, if they did, failed to sustain it--often tried to make themselves great with a big, hairy audacious merger or acquisition. It never worked. They failed to grasp the simple truth that while you can buy your way to growth, you cannot buy your way to greatness. Two big mediocrities joined together never make one great company...