Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After five frustrating years of trying to sustain an activist organization with a rambling, country-preacher leadership style, Abernathy had resigned as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His reason: lack of financial support...
Harvard was shocked when the Ford Foundation said that the "seed [temporary] money," (approximately $500,000) for East Asian Studies would cease in 1975, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday. For almost 20 years Ford has provided "seed money," presumably to sustain EAS until the university could secure endowed funding...
Unable to sustain its present scorching pace, the U.S. economy will begin to falter in the second half of this year and then slow drastically in 1974. That in essence is the opinion of TIME'S Board of Economists, evolved at a daylong meeting last week that turned into a kind of advance obituary of the present boom...
...performed impressively. The seven Senators and two staff counsel displayed a commendable capacity to be both considerate of the witnesses and tough on vague answers. Lawyers all and unrestricted by courtroom rules of evidence, the interrogators constitute a fearsome array of antagonists for any witness who might try to sustain any lies. Equally merciless are the TV cameras, which reveal the slightest hesitation in answering or telltale signs of discomfort and deceit...
...pioneer among the American "film-as-art"-ists, Brakhage's goal is to make films which will maintain lasting value and sustain an infinite number of screenings. As such his medium is hardly the mass-age: Joyce and Picasso imply Brakhage far more directly than do Warner Bros. or Warhol. In fact, Brakhage's relationship to the tidal wave of free-form image-ination films is strikingly similar to Picasso's to cubism...