Word: sustainability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military for being "asocial...
...current financial condition is not healthy enough to sustain Harvard College as the symbol of academic excellence it has been in the past," Spence continued. "Our only feasible source of significant new income to meet this challenge is fundraising...
...with the slipperiness of glasnost and the refusal of U.S. hard-liners to embrace perestroika. Deighton, on the other hand, is caught embarrassingly short. Spy Line, his new novel, puts him five books into a convoluted six- volume series that depends on East Germany's walled-in villainy to sustain its gray and sunless menace...
Yale University Press Director John G. Ryden '61 said Rosenthal's successor must sustain Harvard's commanding position in the university press industry...
...experience under the brute weight of price. It is not a compliment to the work. If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one's sense of literature -- the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture...