Word: sustainer
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...Consider the evidence: Two people living apart require 56 percent more money to sustain themselves than two living together, according to national guidelines on poverty. Children also benefit. Sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that one third of children with divorced parents who participated in their study dropped out of high school, while one tenth of children from intact families did so. One third of their sample’s girls whose parents divorced became teenage mothers—triple the amount of girls from intact families...
...We’re an online company, so we make sales nationwide,” she remarks on her year-old Arlington-based business venture’s range of customers. “Still, we could use a boost.”However, that boost has to sustain itself without the aid of gimmicks in order to have a lasting effect. “The whole thing [Fashion’s Night Out] is designed to create a stir, and to get that economic push that we need nowadays, but what I liked... that the Boston retail community embraced...
...Japan and opened in the U.S. - in New York - in 1964. Tastes have become more global and transportation allows fresh produce to move from a farm in Peru to a restaurant kitchen in Europe or the U.S. in less than 24 hours, making it easy to start - and sustain - a trend...
...analogy demonstrates, spending down the endowment too far (selling too many cows) leaves us with too little money to sustain our operations in the future. Like a farmer with too few cows to sustain his farm, spending too much from our endowment can exacerbate the problem of too little operating cash, making more budget cuts necessary in the future...
...think that how we sustain that is a challenge. How do you - a campaign is a finite moment in time with a very clear objective. Sustaining that so that it now moves forward in ways that aren't as high-profile and aren't - where it's not surrounded by balloons and confetti but has to do more with just the day-to-day work of mentoring a kid or planting a garden - that's I think the challenge that both of us are continually thinking about...