Word: sustainably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earth week is a time to consider the small, individual sacrifices that we can make to sustain and improve the quality of life on our planet. Every Day is Earth Day, which bills itself as "the official New England Earth Day 1990 action guide," is chock full of such suggestions. And though some of them--such as using cloth diapers and not eating meat--are of questionable value, the importance of the idea of individual sacrifice cannot be overstated...
...fast, as I always do. I passed people and kept up with my running partner, who was aiming for a really fast time that, in my infinite cockiness, I had thought I could also achieve. After a few miles, I realized that I would not be able to sustain this pace and settled into a more manageable speed. For the next three hours and 20 minutes, I would knock off mile after mile, battle fatigue and pain--force my body to keep running even when it was screaming to stop...
...accepted the gift of a security system, which was illegal while he was on the Government payroll. Poindexter too was convicted of shredding a presidential finding and erasing 5,000 electronic messages (backup copies were discovered). But for the first time in the scandal, jurors were willing to sustain charges of a conspiracy to obstruct Congress and cover up the Iran-contra folly. "Admiral Poindexter did it because he wanted to protect the political viability of Ronald Reagan. And I consider that to be a selfish motive," Webb said after the verdict. No jury, of course, has been required...
...Bank of Japan would have moved sooner to raise interest rates and stave off inflation, but it was stymied by the Ministry of Finance, which wanted to delay the increase in an effort to prop up stock prices and sustain economic growth. The battle between the central bank and the Finance Ministry was unusually public and sparked widespread anxiety among investors. "For the first time in memory, there was an open dispute. That was very un-Japanese, and it caused a lot of uncertainty," observes Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. By midweek the Finance Ministry agreed...
Even for an industry accustomed to constant attack, cigarette makers suffered a barrage of unusual intensity last week. The torrent of criticism suggested that the U.S. tobacco business will be severely hobbled in its attempts to introduce new brands and sustain its dwindling market...