Word: sustain
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...Aracataca, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. For his first eight years, he saw little of his parents, whom he will reimagine years later as the thwarted couple in Love in the Time of Cholera. In those years, they lived 50 miles away, in Barranquilla, where they struggled to sustain a pharmacy. Young "Gabito" was raised by his loving grandparents, who are transformed by him much later into the dynastic founders of One Hundred Years of Solitude, just as he makes Aracataca into that book's haunting town of Macondo...
Hillel has not allocated a set dollar amount from its budget to sustain the program as of yet because its leaders are not sure how popular the program will be. However, Rosenbloom said he is confident that Hillel can offer substantial help to all students seeking to enhance their Jewish experiences...
...target set by some private-sector forecasters to create 200,000 jobs a month, but it has been wary of making its own forecasts. In recent years spikes in the growth rate have faded. Economists expect this year's fourth quarter to cool to a still healthy 4%. To sustain long-term growth, the economy needs what's known as a virtuous cycle, in which increases in demand for goods and services are such that businesses have to expand capacity, hire more workers and produce more goods, all of which generates additional profits and demand for more workers...
...Students] won’t have much impact unless people can sustain it,” Winters says. “They have to press this and continue this into future elections as well. This could easily be a passing phenomenon...
...letter to The Crimson on January 17, 1996, Gomes regretfully wrote that he had withdrawn his support for a Confederate memorial, saying he hoped that in the near future, “Harvard will be secure enough in its shared ideals to sustain a memorial to those of its sons who remind us of painful past divisions...