Word: sustainably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rules of the Road: Obviously disappointed with his squad's inability to sustain an early 16-8 lead, Roby had an interesting method to explain his team's lack of execution and poor play...
...sustain or improve their life-styles, they had to borrow, and the environment favored borrowing," says Robert Dugger, chief economist of the American Bankers Association. That environment was fostered by aggressive financial institutions that hyped both credit cards and personal loans. As the debt burden has increased, so have personal bankruptcies, which have more than doubled since 1985, to more than 700,000 in the 12 months ending in June. Credit Counseling Centers of Novi, Mich., which advises troubled debtors, describes its typical client as a 44-year-old male with a monthly income of $2,208 who owes...
...effort to sustain profit margins, Geyer repeatedly imposed layoffs and other economies. Last week, however, when parent company president Robert Jelenic demanded yet another round of dismissals, Geyer warned that further cuts might damage the paper's news content and circulation. Employees were then treated to the unusual spectacle of a chief executive being sacked for fighting to retain jobs for the rank and file. Jelenic imposed the cuts himself, reducing the news staff from a onetime high...
...there are no indications that Saddam Hussein is considering a withdrawal from Kuwait or the return of the Emir's family. With oil-price increases disturbing the world economy and with patience wearing thin, the world will inevitably turn to other issues, making it difficult to increase or even sustain the present level of economic pressure. If Saddam does not yield, the forced ejection of Iraqi troops by military action is the only remaining option. Some also advocate the destruction of Iraq's warmaking capability, speaking of almost bloodless "surgical" air strikes, the incompetence or disloyalty of Iraqi troops, sustained...
...skies by flak and assaulted by swarms of fighters. In this, its better half, Memphis Belle achieves something like epic proportions. Out of an authentic emotion -- fear -- it finally forges the kind of unshakable link with an audience that the sweet, stale cliches of male bonding could never sustain...