Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to come to something that may get me in a lot of trouble. But I've got to speak the truth. What is a bloodsucker? When they land on your skin, they suck the life from you to sustain their life...
...tease, sillier and more exotic with each chapter. It's not ugly stuff, as such things go; Strine isn't a rapist or even a thief, though he does steal peeks. Ogling is really all he's interested in, and all that Baker seems to feel readers need to sustain their interest. That's fairly patronizing and more than a little feebleminded, though maybe he is right. Still, an onlooker wonders whether Baker's eye-roller was really the best that Random House could do to fill out the pop-schlock portion of its spring list...
Reacting against the selfishness and materialism that are sanctified by the competitive market -- and that undermine our ability to sustain loving relationships -- people hunger for communities of meaning that provide ethical and spiritual purpose. They are offered instead a myriad of nationalistic, religious or racial pseudocommunities that never challenge the "look out for No. 1" mentality of the market. So people soon find that their daily lives at work or in family life are just as empty as ever...
...awful lot of dying going on now over relatively small patches of land and issues like a path to the sea for the Muslims" -- showing little recognition that such small patches of land could constitute the difference between a barely viable Muslim state and one that could never sustain itself...
...Much work remains to be done," Knowles acknowledged, "but it is clear that the FAS could not sustain large increases in fringe benefit rates...