Word: sustained
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...every American business from the biggest companies to small hardware companies need money to flow through the system not only to create new jobs but to sustain existing jobs. Most people when they think of businesses, they think of parts or supplies, they don't recognize they need short term funds to meet the payroll, to pay for inventories, and people understand the way credit cards work, and we have a lot of credit in the system, and if someone couldn't use their credit card they could understand the impact on businesses...
...falling-out with his mentor and spent six years in jail - be able to bring down a ruling coalition that has governed Malaysia since independence? Or will Najib - the current deputy premier whose reputation has been tainted by the murder trial of his former advisor - take the helm and sustain the National Front's hold on power? Already, Anwar's power play has been dismissed as a mere rhetorical flourish by the ruling coalition. Why else, they ask, did the opposition leader miss his self-imposed deadline of Sept. 16 to unseat the National Front? Abdullah himself sniffed that...
...worse-case scenario, owners [would] buy out all the Mitchell Lama [New York State's housing subsidy] program buildings; they go straight to market rate and no government agency would regulate the buildings, and people might not get Section 8 vouchers, so the question becomes whether it can sustain working and middle class people...
...marijuana affair reflects the problems faced by a sport that has been assigned a deep cultural significance, yet which is struggling to sustain interest. The number of aspiring wrestlers is dwindling: Whereas each tournament used to attract over 100 new applicants up until about a decade ago to join the ranks of the rikishi, in the most recent event there were only three. "Because of a low birth rate there are fewer children to grow up to become sumo wrestlers," says sports journalist Seijun Ninomiya. "So, out of necessity, we began to turn to overseas athletes." Today, more than...
...These efforts are noble in intent, but lack the essential incentive so critical to the decision-making processes of the average American: the prospect of cold, hard cash. The easiest way to get Americans to lose weight is to offer a $1,000 tax credit to adults who sustain a BMI between 18.5 and 25—the range considered to be healthy by most medical professionals...