Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wisecracking style won him the backing of the officers' corps. As President, however, he refused to exempt the army from wage cuts of up to 20% that he ordered for all workers. Said one Western diplomat: "Babangida is reaching outside the military, trying to create new political forces to sustain him. As long as Nigerians feel that the screws are tightening on everybody, they will feel better about it." Babangida has been slow, however, to address one of the country's most pressing problems: official corruption. Last month former President Shagari, who had been kept under house arrest since...
...Steppenwolf, which used to pay the average member about $3,000 a year and which has upped the figure to a still uncomfortable $10,000 or so. That kind of sacrifice has afforded Chicago a stage vitality and inventiveness rivaling the best of off-Broadway. The challenge is to sustain the freedom to experiment, and fail, while ensuring that artists as well as audiences can reap the rewards...
Where popular support for democracy exists, as in Grenada, the United States can sometimes supply the necessary force. But unless a people is politically mature enough to institute and sustain democracy on its own, we cannot gain anything by meddling in their internal affairs--other than, perhaps, ameliorating their misery a little by cautious and limited measures...
Economists and legal experts predicted yesterday that the Supreme Court would sustain the panel's ruling. But they had mixed reactions to the court's decision...
Nonetheless, Bountiful sprouts because of the inherent interest it encourages in the lives of these four characters. But the film is like a Texas-based Four Characters in Search of a Plot, with enough genuine emotion to sustain it, but not quite enough action to avoid straying into gratuitous sentimentality. The characters are all bursting with energy, but they are stifled by the formlessness of the script...