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Officials at the Las Vegas Valley Water District insist that they had no alternative in 1989, when they filed 146 applications for water rights with the state engineer. Nevada's share of federally allotted water from the Colorado River cannot sustain growth in the booming oasis, which attracts 5,000 newcomers a month. Thirsty California, they argue, was positioned to jump in and stake a claim to the unused water. "It was our only Nevada source," says Pat Mulroy, general manager of the water district...
After a dismal season-opening loss to C.W. Post, Harvard played strong against powerhouse Cornell, dropping a close contest, 9-8. The Crimson, however, could not sustain its intensity. Four days later, the laxmen put on a lackluster performance against a much weaker Boston College team, just barely scraping by the Eagles...
...oral postscript to his article, [Anderson] wondered whether the department--which, he said, Mr. Fish had built artificially by recruiting recognized, high-priced scholars--could sustain itself. "The direction of the department was Mr. Fish's direction," he said. "It's basically a department of hired guns." The recent announcement that the scholar Henry Louis Gates would leave the department for a better offer, he suggested, may be a sign of things to come...
George Bush proved last week that he's not reluctant to press an advantage on the battlefield -- and the same is true in the domestic political arena. With Bush's public approval rating having soared to around 90% since he declared victory, his handlers are already working to sustain that support into 1992 and translate it into Republican gains across the board. Their battle plan calls for at least three aggressive thrusts...
...comic set pieces (notably a decorum- shattering rendition of Good Golly Miss Molly at a royal ball). But even in those he avoids the temptation to broad farce. He and Ward trust themselves to go for something sweeter and more wistful, the tone of the fabulist, and they sustain it with near perfect pitch...