Word: sustainably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from less than $14 per bbl. at the end of June. But because buyers have stocked up on cheap fuel in recent months, it will take some time before the new production cap shoves prices as far as the new $21 benchmark. That level may be difficult to sustain beyond the winter, when fuel demand rises naturally, as OPEC members with spare capacity are likely to press for new, higher quotas...
...degrees shift came as a shock, it should have been no real surprise. U.S. support of the bloodstained Khmer Rouge -- however grudging -- had long looked too contradictory and too immoral to sustain. The Bush Administration's strategy has three goals: securing the withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia, preventing the Khmer Rouge's return to power, and holding free elections to seat a new government...
...paper published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the University of Michigan's Dr. Stevo Julius reported that even people with "borderline" hypertension may sustain damage to their heart and blood vessels. Such patients, argued Julius, should seek more aggressive blood-pressure treatment to lower their risk. Dr. Michael Horan, associate director of cardiology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, agreed: "The message is that borderline patients should no longer be neglected. These people could already be in trouble...
...seduces Mrs. Sutter. Or is it the other way around? As Sutter wrestles with his instincts and his ethics, the notion of vendetta no longer seems the exclusive property of the Mafia. Nelson DeMille's previous books Word of Honor and The Charm School demonstrated an ability to sustain tension; this one adds a smart social eye and an unfailing sense of humor...
...Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrated how far both nations have come: trade between Seoul and Moscow is expected to reach $1 billion this year, and diplomatic relations are pending. Despite its ties to the North, the Soviet Union needs investment and trade from Seoul more than it needs to help sustain one of the world's last holdouts against reform...