Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, this game was not a fairy tale. Harvard could not sustain itself through the second. Two penalties to open the period set the tone for the frame and Clarkson struck twice during the period, scoring first on a power-play goal by Philippe Roy on the power play...
...since the end of the Gulf War doesn't bludgeon Saddam into resuming inspections, all formal restraints on his weapon building are still gone, and the U.S. is committed to an endless repetition of attacks to keep Iraq in check: arms control by bombing. Very expensive, politically formidable to sustain and tactically risky. Either way, Iraq will trouble the U.S., sighed Berger, "as long as Saddam Hussein is in power...
...fact, Reporting Vietnam makes one wonder at America's ability to sustain the war effort as long as it did, given the grim news and harsh truths that were being sent home from the front. Was no one listening? Was the power of the government information machine so vast as to overcome the real news from Vietnam...
Kemple says the five typewriters that Hilles maintains in its first-floor typing room do sustain heavy use: since students must check out the typing cartridge before using the equipment, the library can gauge the frequency of student...
...help level the playing field on which U.S. and foreign exporters compete." Further, say advocates of subsidizing exports, the U.S. is merely doing what other nations do through a range of helpful export measures. True enough. But European companies traditionally shoulder higher taxes than American companies and help sustain elaborate social-welfare systems of the sort the U.S. has never seen. Some of them even operate under mandated employment levels. No American company puts up with that...