Word: sustainer
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...comedy. But it never settles for long on any style or viewpoint, and it arrives at no dramatic conclusion. In other words, it is a lot like ordinary life, which accounts for its occasional charms. But it is never much like a movie, which accounts for its failure to sustain the viewer's attention...
...calculating that it could, in any meaningful sense, get away with an attack on the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Even if all American land-based missiles were destroyed, the men in the Kremlin would have to count on the distinct possibility that their country, and perhaps their command bunker, would sustain a pulverizing blow from U.S. submarine- and bomber- launched weapons...
...divided Germany, or American warships in the South China Sea. But the objectives for those deployments should be honestly and clearly defined; they should be vigorously debated and politically supported on their own terms. If the U.S. obfuscates or misrepresents its purposes, it will be able to sustain neither domestic political support for its overseas missions nor the hospitality and cooperation of its allies...
...when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military for being "asocial...
...current financial condition is not healthy enough to sustain Harvard College as the symbol of academic excellence it has been in the past," Spence continued. "Our only feasible source of significant new income to meet this challenge is fundraising...