Word: sustainably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even with an educated and productive workforce, it is difficult to sustain an incentive-driven economy with figures like these. Similarly, the perpetual high rates of unemployment in European countries can often be traced to stringent government restrictions on hiring and firing...
Ellison and Chesson both imply in their letters that it is irresponsible journalism to use a person's name in a story in which he or she refuses to comment. But, logically extended, this seems to be a difficult proposition to sustain. By this rationale for instance, if Tonya Harding refused to comment on the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, it would be irresponsible to print her name in any story related to the incident. Or, without President Nixon's comments, It was careless to name him in stories about Watergate...
...want to sustain the humanitarian spirit[in Armenia]...there must be better cooperationbetween European and American efforts," Walshsaid
...book covers one liturgical year. What preoccupies the author is the role of ritual -- the dailiness of religion -- in a world that has largely lost faith. The Kreers are not strong enough characters to sustain that ambitious theme, but there are compensations. Wilson has a lethal grasp of parish politics. He watches gleefully at the plotting of the low-church Spittles, who had poisoned Kreer's mother's mind against him. Seizing the moment, his ecclesiastical superiors finish Kreer...
...London-based Institute for European Defense and Strategic Studies, believes humanitarian aid in Bosnia has done more harm than good: Serbs and Croats at checkpoints have exacted tolls in hard currency, siphoned food and medicine from the relief trucks and then used the cash and supplies to sustain the fighting. Roads improved by the U.N. to facilitate access for aid convoys have made it easier for all three factions to move troops and guns. The 300,000 survivors of the two-year-long siege of Sarajevo refer to themselves bitterly as "the well-fed dead," plied with just enough food...