Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they voted yesterday, many lawmakers, even some who voted to sustain Reagan's veto, denounced a last-minute campaign against the restoration act by the conservative Moral Majority...
...Square is also after a much narrower market now, said Gifford. She said the recent closing of shoes & Things, next doors to Store 24, showed the inability of smaller stores to sustain themselves. "Cobblers are a victim of the times, " she said...
Finally, Christina Keily is more than suitably abrasive as the tortured Mother Miriam Ruth. Indeed, it is perhaps unfortunate that she chooses to be quite so tense throughout the entire play. Subdued histrionics are difficult to sustain at the best of times. Fortunately for all, she occasionally drops the tortured smile. Her discussion with Langford of the possible smoking habits of the saints is an oasis of subdued humor in the otherwise shrill uniformity of her portrayal...
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger has said thecourt can, in theory, find a newspaper in contemptof court for its reporting on trials, but theconditions necessary to sustain such a decisionare virtually unattainable, Abrams said...
...advance in medical technology, doctors and ethicists wrestle over how long people should be kept alive and how to ration health care between the young and the very old. And closest to home, many "sandwich" families will feel a terrible strain as they try to raise their children and sustain their parents on a squeezed household budget...