Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a less sanguine argument: that Kim Il Sung will ignore the Russians and Chinese. Pentagon officials estimate that North Korea has enough supplies on hand to sustain a three-month offensive; and Kim may be confident that if he were embroiled in a war, neither Moscow nor Peking could afford to ignore his pleas to resupply him. Now 63 years old and rumored to be in poor health, Kim may feel that he is running out of time to reunite Korea. The real danger, as some South Koreans see it, is that Kim will underestimate both...
...this week from its ten-day Memorial Day recess. In March, Ford vetoed a bill suspending his authority to raise import fees. So, blocking the tariff boost now would require a two-thirds majority in both House and Senate; a coalition of Republicans and oil-state Democrats could well sustain the veto. The decontrol proposal is far more vulnerable; it could be shelved by a simple majority of either house within five days after being received...
Here again is the same rich early poetry, not quite as exciting overall, but in its control, Clarke avoids the earlier inability to sustain such a voice...
...Clarke could not sustain this early poetry for very long. His next books were uneven, tending to lapse into long ethereal movements that seemed only a parody of Yeats and his forerunners in the symbolist tradition. These years of his life were also the most frustrating for Clarke, for after a three-year English professorship at University College Dublin, he was kicked out for marrying outside the Church. Clarke's marriage went sour all too soon, and his instability--perhaps a byproduct of the tension between his staunch Catholic upbringing and what he called his "little acts of curiosity about...
...Peabody reckoned that steel shipments this year will fall to about 87 million tons, off 25% from last year. Though some steelmen have been talking up additional price rises later this year, when labor costs will go up under a long-term contract, any boosts will be difficult to sustain; indeed, some mills have quietly begun discounting prices. The industry also faces stiffening competition from European and Japanese firms that are offering steel to U.S. buyers at prices well below those charged by American mills...