Word: sustainibility
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...India-Pakistan relations. While President Clinton said they underlined the need for dialogue with Pakistan, Mr. Vajapayee warned that "we have the will and the means to eliminate this menace." There's considerable pressure in New Delhi to punish Pakistan for the low-key anti-India insurgency it helps sustain in Kashmir. So what Clinton recently described as "the most dangerous region in the world" is likely to stay pretty dangerous, although the President hopes to make the danger more manageable by strengthening Washington's relationship with leaders on both sides. More important, Washington doesn't want those dangers...
...based to a large degree on a desire to prevent people from poor countries moving to Europe to live off the welfare state. Yet that very welfare system is now threatened by the fact that in time, a diminishing, aging population will no longer produce sufficient wealth to sustain it. Most of Europe's welfare states were created for relatively homogeneous populations, but the only way to sustain them may be to embrace heterogeneity...
...Gunn says the University's refusal to allow a Harvard detachment is beside the point, since there are too few Harvard students involved in MIT's detachment to sustain a detachment. Ten students currently participate in the program from Harvard...
Bottom line: one dominant period of hockey won't bring home a conference championship. A fast start is great, but the Crimson must sustain a high level of play for the entire game to defend its title...
...that though the lessons were developmentally sound and students made some improvement, they still lagged 2.4 years behind the national average in reading, and 25% couldn't read at all. And the programs' high price tags, coupled with administrative turnover at many struggling schools, can make it difficult to sustain them. Core Knowledge can cost as much as $60,000 in the first year and $15,000 for follow-up training...