Word: sustainers
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...village of Herto, in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia, is surrounded by sparse patches of dry, scrubby vegetation, barely enough to sustain the sheep, cattle and goat herds of the seminomadic Afar people who live there. But 160,000 years ago, conditions were far different: a shallow lake sat here, teeming with hippos, crocodiles and catfish. The lush grasslands that surrounded its pebble-strewn shores were filled with lions, zebras and antelopes as well as another creature, which traveled on two legs rather than four. Our distant ancestors had walked the earth for millions of years by this time...
...insurgency to sustain itself and attract new recruits beyond the existing cadre of die-hard Baathists - and, possibly, pockets of Sunni Islamists and disaffected former army officers who have suddenly found themselves with no source of income since the U.S. two weeks ago dissolved the Iraqi army - the U.S. would have to badly botch its efforts to win Iraqi goodwill. But therein lies the rub: Although the U.S. is a long way off from alienating the majority of Iraqis to the extent that they'd consider taking up arms against the world's most powerful military, it has not, thus...
Unlike most other fellowship programs, Radcliffe operates under a two-tiered mission statement: to create “an academic community where individuals can pursue advanced work in any of the academic disciplines, professions, or creative arts” and to sustain “a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society...
...King Licorish says, because national chains can weather economic slowdowns and offer discounts that small operations like hers cannot sustain...
...real dispute between Sharon and the Palestinians is over land. The Israeli leader has made clear he accepts the inevitability of a Palestinian state and knows Israel can't sustain a regime of occupation over the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza. The question is where the boundaries between such a state and Israel will be drawn, and what will become of the settlements Israel has built on the territories conquered in 1967 which are the basis of the new Palestinian state...