Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress is nearly as reluctant today to approve secret wars as it was a decade ago, when Henry Kissinger wanted to bankroll Savimbi and other anti-Communists in Angola. Thus, while the worldwide network of Soviet clients is vulnerable to American counterpressure, it is difficult for the U.S. to sustain that pressure, not to mention apply it clandestinely...
...visitors' defensive efforts, however, were simply not enough to sustain the team. The offense, except for occasional spurts, looked tired, and its passing simply was not crisp enough to elude a brawny UMass defense...
...Latin American debt. We want to pay. What we are trying to communicate to creditor nations is: Help us sustain a process of development that will permit us to pay without producing social explosions, without paralyzing our economies...
...does--breed contempt. In particular, the campus divestiture movement has long been in danger of blending too smoothly into the spring landscape. Since the massive divestiture rallies of 1978 and 1979, which brought as many as 3000 students into the streets of Cambridge, the movement has been unable to sustain its momentum. President Bok's reiteration of his opposition to divestiture in 1979 brought the issue to a stalemate, which has been all but unbreakable. Since then, divestiture protests have dwindled in both size and intensity. Most important, campus South Africa activists have fallen increasingly into a reactive rather than...
...realm of foreign policy, Gorbachev's selection should, above all, be interpreted as a reassertion of Soviet determination to compete vigorously with the U.S. and other adversaries and to sustain that competition, under a single leader, over a long time. That is the real signal in Gorbachev's age and in the prospect of his being around long after his septuagenarian comrades, not to mention a septuagenarian American President, have departed from the scene...