Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor emeritus title once had a certain status to it, it has since become synonymous--especially to grant-giving organizations--with inactive academics resting on their laurels. For those seeking to continue research after giving up teaching, the continued flow of grant money is the only way to sustain academic life...
...Greenhouse was averaging around 15 pizzas per night--about half what was needed to sustain the program. Most of those orders were for delivery between 9 and 10 p.m., leaving the employees underutilized during later service hours. Delivery had been available until...
...about malaise, or for Clinton, who mused about the people's being in a funk until his advisers told him to snap out of it. When Reagan, in his First Inaugural, declared the American people heroes, he honored what they could do on their own, without him: "Their values sustain our national life." It was written as a valentine, but maybe it turned out to be a prophecy...
...takes 150 to 200 ethnic families in a community to sustain the sense of belonging and ethnic identification," Davidian says...
...takes 150 to 200 ethnic families in a community to sustain the sense of belonging and ethnic identification," Davidian says...