Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington scene by television journalists. He did it, this experienced actor, by disdaining the press and carefully controlling his public appearances. And he did it negatively by subjecting reporters to the humiliation of shouting questions over the helicopter's roar. Artificial as these tactics were, they helped him sustain the popularity essential to any ! effective presidency. But the trick has worn out, as do all long-running television acts. When Reagan tried to counter the Wall Street crash with one- liners shouted over the rotor blades, it was not Sam Donaldson but Ronald Reagan who looked inadequate...
...insurgencies do not seem as pressing as they did during the out-of-power 1970s. "The reason there is little thunder from the right," says Burton Pines, vice president of the Heritage Foundation, "is that the atmospheric conditions have to be right for thunder." Conservative indignation is difficult to sustain, even though Reagan has failed to follow through with his social agenda and is about to sign an arms deal with the Soviet Union. Explains Lance Tarrance, a conservative pollster working for Kemp: "Once outlanders get their man in, they tend not to behave like outlanders...
Until now, the earth's climate has been a remarkably stable, self- correcting machine, letting in just the right amount and type of solar energy and providing just the right balance of temperature and moisture to sustain life. Alternating cycles of cold and warmth, as well as greater and lesser concentrations of different gases, have forced some species into extinction. The same changes have helped others evolve. The irony is that just as we have begun to decipher the climatic rhythms that have gone on for hundreds of millions of years, we may have begun to change them irrevocably...
Such a pace will not be easy to sustain, however. Mexico and Brazil are overburdened by debts that threaten to crush their economies and throttle their ability to export. Even the stronger Asian NICs face perils ranging from political unrest at home to protectionist barriers abroad...
...final in-house work was 'Six Preludes', by James Romeo, Dunster's house music tutor. Romeo wrote these preludes as simpler pieces for his piano students at Harvard, but in their simplicity they display the composer's talent for the pleasingly lyrical. The first of the preludes uses the sustain pedal to allow harp-like tones to reverberate within the piano, creating a sort of water-color of sound reminiscent of Debussy...