Word: sustained
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...people 8,000 years ago, the world population rose to 1 billion by 1850, 2 billion about 1930, and now stands at 3.5 billion. Current projections run to 7 billion by the year 2000. Neo-Malthusians like Stanford Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich grimly warn that the biosphere cannot sustain that many people. As Ehrlich puts it: "There can only be death, war, pestilence and famine to reduce the number...
...Century of the Common Man, the grandeurs and miseries of war were extended to more and more of the hitherto underprivileged. The guns of August (1914) ushered in universal conscription to sustain the mass armies. The warplanes of 1939 ensured a mass distribution of war to civilians-sadly changed from keeping the home fires burning to putting them out. Such thoughts are provoked by Angus Calder's The People...
...Dinis can still file charges on his own, as can a grand jury. But a grand jury normally acts at the urging of a district attorney. It seems highly unlikely that Dinis will bother to press another misdemeanor charge, and his aides concede that there is no evidence to sustain a manslaughter charge. Dinis could decide that he has reason to doubt significant parts of Kennedy's sworn testimony and accuse him of perjury. Dinis seemed to be ruling out any such serious action, however, when he hinted to reporters that if all the testimony secured last week...