Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wisdom, Friel eventually turns the tables upon Joe. Having offended Mag into stony silence, Joe tries desperately to win back her favor. These moments provide Carlos with fine comic material as he jumps from one impersonation to another, from one deliciously wicked private joke to the next. Both actors sustain their own extended monologues beautifully, but, just as important, they also convey a great depth of attachment and intimacy whenever Mag and Joe are reconciled...
...Ophthalmologist Thaddeus Dryja of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, found that there are actually two genes in healthy people that protect against the eye cancer -- probably by ordering production of a protein that prevents cells from multiplying uncontrollably. People born with both of these genes intact can usually sustain damage to one without developing retinoblastoma. But those born with one damaged gene nearly always lose the other and develop the disease...
...question and answer session after the discussion, a member of the audience asked whether the United States, in giving economic aid to China, was fostering the development of a potential enemy. Aikman acknowledged that the United States may in fact be helping to sustain a government operating under an ideology the American government opposes, but said that "it is in our best interests that we encourage reforms against the leftism that Mao advocated...
...Reagan Administration, the dilemma was as much a matter of averting a political defeat as of sustaining its tattered policy of "constructive engagement." The White House was searching frantically last week for ways of winning enough Republican votes to sustain a presidential veto. One plan was to announce immediately the appointment of Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat, as the new U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. At the same time, the President would issue an Executive Order, much like the one announced last year, imposing limited new sanctions against South Africa. Also in the planning stage was an African trip...
After the vote, Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary and current president of the organization, told the ministers, "I fear that we'll have to sustain our pressure for much longer than many of us would have wished." At week's end Howe and Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, held separate meetings in London with Oliver Tambo, president of the militant African National Congress...