Word: sustainer
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...those seats," says Flynn. "If he gets blown out, there's no way we can hold on. So it's terribly important to us how he does relatively as well as absolutely." All this recalculation, however, assumes a reversal of the candidates' histories: Mondale repeatedly failed to sustain momentum during last spring's primary campaign, while Reagan recovered convincingly from early setbacks in both...
...lacks the capacity to astonish or, it would seem, to inspire. If the audience is to become suspensefully and emotionally involved, it must be made to feel a certain ambiguity about Charlie. It must wonder if she really has enough emotional stability and enough skill in performance to sustain under deadly pressure the elaborate impersonation that the Israelis require of her. In other words, what is needed is Annie Hall's neurotic flightiness, or at least her actressy self-awareness. Instead, Keaton brings mostly a sort of put-upon sullenness to her part...
...united" Ireland, but a new civil war--and bloodier than any we have seen so far--in which the embittered minority in the North would attempt to destroy the occupying force of the South. This is the nightmare which Noraid's bombs are designed to create and sustain: for how could such a state be held together except by the superior use of terror? Yet this is the reality of the romantic dream Irish Americans think they are in the process of creating...
...doing a tiny share of its business in South Africa, one would suppose that it is also immoral to hold shares in the many companies that buy goods from South Africa or sell goods to it, since they too benefit, from the Sough African economy and presumably help to sustain it. One would also suppose that Harvard should not accept gifts of money derived in some demonstrable part form South African operations, since they would also be tainted. Accepting tuitions from South African students would likewise seom suspect; even tuitions form American student paid in part by dividends from companies...
...average cost of U.S. production. Despite those troubles, the Reagan Administration last week refused to protect the industry by limiting or taxing the foreign copper entering the U.S. In turning down a recommendation by the International Trade Commission to grant protection, critics charged, Reagan was trying to sustain a free-trade image in the election campaign by ruling against a small, shrinking industry. Politically less safe will be his decision on steel-import quotas, due by Sept. 24, which 240,000 unionized steelworkers are anxiously awaiting...