Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like Shylock, I say to the people here, prick us and we bleed," said Milne, warning that the universities cannot sustain the burden of full taxation...
...South Vietnamese government as the peace settlement was arranged. He insisted that the accords were based on the premise that the U.S. would "provide adequate economic and military assistance to South Viet Nam." More vaguely, he said that another assumption was that "if necessary, the U.S. would help sustain the terms of the Paris accords." Ford claimed that there was a "universal consensus" in the U.S. behind "adequate material support" to South Viet Nam, ignoring the fact that the Democratic Party platform of 1972, at least, had called for an end to such military...
...constant performer, whose glory on the tenured stage lies in the absence of competition. Butley demands all for himself and when at the end of the play he has driven away all the other characters, including his wife and his young protege, only the audience is left to sustain him. In the course of a single day his life has practically fallen apart, but we cannot...
Cliff Gorman, as an Israeli intelligence officer, is what he is: a good comic actor in desperate need of a gag. Richard Attenborough, as the cracked mastermind of the plot, gamely gives more of himself than his small role calls for or can sustain. John V. Lindsay plays a U.S. Senator, the father of one of the kidnaped girls, pretty much as he played being mayor of New York City - like a B-picture leading man. At that, he is not the worst thing about this flaccid, fatuous film, though with such wealth to choose from, it is hard...
...following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter, so far at least, clearly shares his disdain for British foible, but cannot sustain it; when she lapses into tolerance, the novel drags. Even so, Mirror reflects a provocative and steely talent...