Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even more important consideration is money. A senior U.S. diplomat in San Salvador estimates that a "bare minimum" of $80 million to $ 100 million, an increase of more than $30 million over current funding levels, is necessary annually to sustain the counterinsurgency campaign. Most would go for logistical support and training. The Salvadoran army requires $25 million annually for ammunition alone. Lack of a sustained funding commitment by the U.S., says the diplomat, reduces Salvadoran military self-confidence and also provides "an excuse for not taking vigorous action...
...fact about Japan: namely that it is the best country in the world in which to study the impact of mass audiences on elite cultural forms. When something like tea becomes so popular, is it democratized? Not necessarily. It may become more snobbish, taking on a coercive preciousness to sustain its mystique when the old mechanisms of aristocratic patronage in small groups have corroded. Japanese snobbery, Japanese cultural insecurity, are hog heaven for merchandisers: once they get into a cultural feeding frenzy, the Japanese can make Rodeo Drive look modest...
...plot with "formula" written all over it, yet director Lewis Carlino successfully works Class into an enjoyable and believable two hours. Much of the credit goes to the actors, who, despite some painfully stagy lapses, sustain comic realism throughout. Except for Bisset (whose education of Jonathan is so captivating that you never wonder why she's lavishing it on a 19-year-old) the adult characters are largely unconvincing stereotypes, but the academy inmates are almost all outstanding. Lowe, fresh off the set of The Outsiders, and film-newcomer McCarthy work well as Vernon's dynamic duo, constructing a close...
Despite the presence of 40,000 Vietnamese troops (and some 5,000 Soviet advisers), Laos has been struggling since 1979 to sustain a socialist course unfettered by Hanoi's doctrinaire style. When the Pathet Lao Communists took over in Vientiane in 1975 after the U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam, they quickly forced the resignation of King Savang Vatthana and instituted hard-line Marxist policies that brought the country to the edge of ruin. Private trade was banned, the few existing factories were nationalized, and restrictions on private life burgeoned. The Pathet Lao appropriated livestock and went...
...Jones industrial average declined one point last week, to close at 1241.69. Investors are cautious because they recognize what a tough assignment is facing Volcker. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist of Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "We have not yet solved the problem of how to sustain a recovery without reigniting the fires of inflation. This will be Volcker's task, and no one has ever pulled it off before...