Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carlucci, who has been lobbying with a reluctant Congress to sustain the defense buildup, the scandal will make his task more difficult. Nor will it help Vice President George Bush, whose campaign for the Oval Office has already been saddled with the Iran-contra affair, implications of widespread impropriety among Reagan appointees and the investigation of Attorney General Edwin Meese. The Vice President could be further embarrassed by his close association with former Navy Secretary John Lehman. One of the principal targets of the investigation is former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems Melvyn Paisley...
Sixty House Republicans defected from the administration and voted to override. Only one Democrat, Robert Mrazek of New York, a strong advocate of free trade, voted to sustain the president...
However, Reagan said much of what has been written about the negotiations had been "based on some kind of leaks or misinformation, because there are no facts to sustain...
Madonna's awkward, indecisive characterization seems calculated to help paper over those gaps and sustain suspense by keeping the audience from reaching conclusions. Thus the question "Can she act?" cannot be answered. The shrewdness in her performance is clear, but so, alas, is her thinking process: she lacks ease and naturalness. Mantegna, by contrast, superbly manages his character's clashing mental states. Silver is captivating, especially in a second-act tantrum that is equal parts rage, hurt, con-artist scam and genuine grief at a betrayal...
Taking refuge behind an analogy and a double interrogative may seem unnecessarily furtive at a time when the Sandinistas and the contras are talking earnestly of ending the bloodshed. But it is a pointed reminder that peace and the broad political consensus needed to sustain it are still no more than dreams for most Nicaraguans...