Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopeless loans, taking the losses now rather than putting them off. Last week Bank of Boston, the 13th largest U.S. bank, said it plans to write off $200 million of its total $1 billion in Third World loans and set aside $470 million to pay for losses it might sustain on the rest. While other banks, led by New York's Citicorp, announced huge set-asides earlier this year to cover losses on Latin debt, the Boston bank's move was the first time that a major lender had given up on such loans. The radical decision puts pressure...
...greater challenge, though, is that the actors have to sustain for nearly three hours the audience's interest in the story of an embittered, vengeful killer whose philosophy is "we all deserve to die." But if such a character can be engaging, then Tolins' Sweeney is engaging. Edwards' Mrs. Lovett is hilarious, as are Johnson's lascivious, foppish beadle and Arthur Fuscaldo's Pirelli, a mountebank rival barber. Wolman's judge is surprisingly sympathetic, and Michael Starr is strong as Tobias, Mrs. Lovett's fiercely devoted young shill...
Streetcaris a psychological drama of immense power, and Rosencranz's cast manages to bring that power to the stage. As the audience grows accustomed to the drama's Southern drawl, it begins to hear the sharp undertones of the seemingly ordinary lives on stage. Few Harvard productions could sustain audience interest for three hours, but with a stellar Stanley and provocative Blanche, the Leverett production actually gains in interest...
...case for relaxing controls is hard to sustain, as new security breaches come to light almost every week. The Toshiba affair, more than any other, focused the West's attention on the scope of the leakage problem. The scandal broke last March, after the U.S. learned that a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant had shipped to the U.S.S.R. advanced machines that have enabled the Soviets to build submarines quiet enough to escape U.S. naval detection...
...Costa Rica, says the U.S. intelligence community once counted him among its most valuable assets along Nicaragua's southern border. When Congress was constraining the Reagan Administration from supporting the contras' war against Nicaragua's Sandinista regime, Hull was a leader of the network that helped sustain the rebels' "southern front." His airstrips were used by planes that supplied U.S. weapons, food and clothes to the contras, his ranch house was the site of delicate negotiations among contra factions, and he was a conduit for money used to support rebel activities. Directly across the San Carlos River from Hull...