Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sachar said he disapproved of admissions quotas, adding that he hopes the Supreme Court will sustain the California Supreme Court decision in favor of Allan Bakke, because "while I have a firm conviction that this country owes a great deal to the disadvantaged, this isn't the way to do it. There are other avenues to be explored...
Thus it is doubtful that a House-Senate conference committee would sustain the Senate position supporting deregulation. What is more, Jimmy Carter has vowed to veto such a bill, and neither chamber would have the votes to override him. Nonetheless, the upshot of the Senate vote is likely to be that while controls will remain, there will be compromises that will send the price of natural gas substantially higher than Carter had wanted-perhaps as high as $2.25 per m.c.f. when a bill is finally passed...
...inflammatory issues, whatever their emotional impact of the moment, are not enough to build and sustain a major conservative movement. Arnold Steinberg, a political strategist who has worked for Helms and former Senator James Buckley, believes that an alliance based on these gut issues would attract at best one-third of the electorate. Further recruits can be gained only by reaching out to groups who normally vote Democratic, largely on such bread-and-butter issues as creating more jobs and fighting inflation...
This mannered little comedy of bedroom hanky-panky aspires after wickedness-the word Nabokovian is used wistfully in the dust-jacket copy-and achieves naughtiness instead. But that is enough to sustain Author Fay Weldon's fifth novel, one of those lazy summer afternoon collusions in which the writer feels superior to her characters, and the reader smiles at the writer...
Many economists are not yet persuaded that Carter's essentially conservative fiscal policies will provide enough to sustain the economy. Says IBM Vice President David Grove, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "I agree that we want to restrain rising prices, but a more expansionary policy could be followed without aggravating inflation." For the moment, however, Jimmy Carter is probably too bedazzled by the success of his cautious management to listen to such advice...