Word: sustainer
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...puff" machines. With light puffs into a plastic straw, users can switch on the TV and change its channels, telephone a friend and play computer games. Electronic nerve stimulars are helping men with severe spinal-cord injuries to father children; penile implants are enabling men who cannot sustain an erection to make love. Wheelchairs that stand up make it possible for the disabled to greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals with no voice a way to communicate. Materials designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
...acre spread. He has let all 40 of his permanent employees go. He won't plant cotton this spring -- it needs lots of water. His alfalfa, another thirsty crop, will come in at one- sixth of last year's harvest. He is desperately scrounging for water to sustain his almond trees. Still he retains faith. "It's like being told you're going to die," says Starrh, 61. "Until it happens, you think you just might make...
...quick to point out that they voiced caution before the confrontation and again even during the elation of its first days. Yet many of these same people also aired speculative scenarios that were much more optimistic. They veered between ebullient optimism and tight-lipped restraint as they tried to sustain public support and coalition unity, and keep pressure on Saddam, without building up unreasonable hopes. Not surprisingly, much of the public chose to hear and believe the ebullience more than the restraint...
...Statue of Liberty, sinking in tiny copper pieces to the bottom of New York harbor? Conventional wisdom holds that if a ground war begins and the body bags start piling up, backing for the war will dissolve. This is not just the expert condescension that assumes Americans will sustain a war only as long as it mimics a video game. The judgment is based on what happened in Korea and Vietnam and on the alchemy of public opinion. Before the bombing in the gulf began, a majority favored letting sanctions work; afterward, pollsters registered 80% approval for Bush's handling...
...Northeastern Coach Don McKenney's praise for his netminder was tempered by a large issue: whether or not Cole can sustain that high level of play in the Huskies' key games down the stretch...