Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the direct impacts of the pipeline, Texaco's investment will provide a large source of income to the SLORC, money that the regime desperately needs to sustain its bloated military. Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese woman who has led the pro-democracy movement and won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has explicitly called for an end to foreign investment in Burma until a democratic government is installed. Democratic elections were held in 1990, in which Suu Kyi's party won 82 percent of the parliamentary seats, but the military ignored them...
...casual and non-combative; Mr. Weinberg conveys a particular interest in our project and what is needed to make it happen, rather than adopting a hard-line, cost-cutting stance. In the case of last spring, when we discovered that our original council grant award was insufficient to sustain our budget, we made a second case during appeals night and were swiftly awarded additional funding...
Planning a wedding and an election victory at the same time, Fields is confident that the House will be his first home as a newlywed. A native north Floridian, he believes Corrine Brown's narrow 1994 victory won't sustain her in the newly drawn Third--the district is 11.5% less black and as much as 20% more Republican than in 1994. Fields supports the line-item veto, reforms to cut taxes and make the tax code simpler and more equitable, and a balanced budget...
...Dole advisers how many appearances their man will actually be making in California, and they hedge. That has led to suspicions that even this new strategy is partly just spin, intended to sustain the fading notion that his campaign has somewhere to go. But the Dole campaign, which claims to have a little less than $20 million in its national treasure chest, is promising to spend a third of it on California television buys. Dole ads are disappearing in some other states, like Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Maybe the money really is heading west...
...Whatever you are doing, if it is for a good cause, you must sustain yourself. You have to be stronger no matter where you are. Don't lose your mind. This is why spirituality is so important. You have to sustain yourself, be strong, no matter what trouble comes into your life...