Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...February 1973 the court failed to sustain a Government challenge to the merger of Denver's First National Bancorporation and the First National Bank of Greeley, Colo., and in March it permitted General Dynamics Corp. to acquire United Electric Coal Cos. of Illinois. Last week, in what many lawyers and businessmen regard as a decisive turn in the court's attitude, it voted 5 to 3 to let two banks in the state of Washington merge...
...precise dialogue Twain gave him," commented co-Scenarist Richard Sherman. "First of all, nobody in the audience would understand him if he used the stereotypical dialogue-'Ah's gwine down de ribah'-so we had to handle the language and the attitude. We had to sustain the dignity of the man." He and his brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving him a couple of songs to sing. "Gotta get away to Cairo/Ai-ro/Illinois!" he croons brightly with Huck...
Until recently, the greatest deterrent to amateur bombmaking was the scarcity of the key ingredient. Both weapons and nuclear reactors need fissionable material to sustain a chain reaction -the familiar energy-producing process in which tiny, fast-moving neutrons released by the breakup (fission) of one unstable atom smash into the nuclei of neighboring atoms, causing them to split. The common reactor fuel-which was also used in the bomb that leveled Hiroshima-is a fissionable isotope of uranium called U-235. But U-235 accounts for only about one out of every 140 atoms of uranium in nature...
...case, the sextet navigated Gesualdo's twisting harmonies with usually precise intonation. The pitch problems that did crop up from time to time were invariably failures of individual singers to sustain difficult lines. Unfortunately, the sacred motets that opened the program suffered from exactly this type of difficulty, as did William Byrd's Mass for five voices. With only a single voice for each elaborate contrapuntal line, I Dilettanti were simply unable to maintain the warm blended tone they brought to the simpler, chordal passages...
...square of chocolate and a cup of wine. Eventually, as both food and hope dwindled, the survivors reached a decision that any well-fed reader will find difficult to judge. They began to eat the flesh of their dead companions. The grisly diet enabled 16 of them to sustain life for 70 days, until the snows had melted enough for two of the party's strongest members to make a harrowing, ten-day descent in search of help. When helicopters finally reached the mountaintop on Dec. 22,14 Uruguayans, most of them less than 20 years old, were still...