Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast Rube Goldberg money machine. Long under attack by conservatives because of its cost (more than $6 billion a year for all levels of Government), the welfare colossus has lately received its most telling blows from liberals, who accuse it of subverting the very people it is supposed to sustain. It seems hardly possible that the system could be made more inequitable or inefficient, but that is exactly what the U.S. House of Representatives appeared to have accomplished last week...
Kiley's two colleagues definitely thought otherwise; they were unwilling to extend the product-liability trend far enough to sustain Schemel's claim. Their ruling held that the manufacturer's "duty is to avoid hidden defects and latent or concealed dangers. He is not bound to anticipate and guard against grossly careless misuse of his product...
...take these people's exhibitionism as a serious movement, or to fear to be considered "straight." Why not be proud to be? Granted that materialism and other abuses abound in our society. Are the hippies not substituting others even more virulent, even anachronistic? How long can society sustain this group of parasites without itself crumbling...
...stoppage was a two-edged sword. With little else to sustain them, the Arabs rely on oil royalties and taxes for $2.5 billion in annual income. And the longer the shutdowns lasted, the more the Arabs were out of pocket. Saudi Arabia alone was estimated to be losing $2,000,000 every day the Arabian American Oil Co. was closed down...
Throughout this turmoil, Mrs. Bunting appealed to girls to understand the College's financial troubles and the losses it would sustain if the rebate were granted. The College's difficulties are undoubtedly legitimate, but Mrs. Bunting's appeals for finances, in the girls' minds, came rather late. However valid her reasons for reneging on a promise, it was clear to girls that she was reneging. This incident is typical of Mrs. Bunting's tactics: she maneuvers herself into conflicts, speaks too soon, and later finds that she must go back on her word. Continued contact with their president has eroded...