Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's long duration (two and three quarter hours) contributes to the audience's frustration as the play's loosely linked series of scenes progress very slowly. All three women live in their own unsuccessful worlds which cannot sustain any interaction when forced to allow others to enter. After she takes in the bum, Aston's altruism causes her to suffer painful flashbacks of her past in a mental hospital and to recall her inability to deal with people. Shipley creates a very neurotic and tense Aston who has tremendous difficulty finishing thoughts. Her taut facial expressions constantly match...
...Reagan doesn't have the credentials to carry off this issue," insists Mondale Pollster Peter Hart. "He has three years of David Stockman's green visor staring him in the face." White House aides concede that the impetus on the education issue will be hard to sustain, since the Administration is simply urging state and local action rather than offering a program of its own. "We have to hit the issue hard now," says an Administration official, "and then bring it back next year." But White House aides feel that for the short term, at least, the President...
...year sent the value of the peso plummeting further, making the 36% unemployment rate (including the underemployed) seem all the more severe. Some of the once docile immigrants are carrying weapons and leading patrolmen on high-speed chases. "Mexicans are upset because they don't feel they can sustain themselves in their own country," says Mike Sheehy of the Nogales, Ariz., Border Patrol...
...income. During the past decade, even when inflation hit its peak of 13.3% in 1979, most schools hesitated to boost fees at the same rate to cover costs that were climbing as well. As a result, faculty raises lagged and colleges deferred maintenance. Moreover, Government research grants, which help sustain 50 to 60 of the larger universities, private as well as public, have leveled off in the Reagan years while costs continue to rise. Says William McNamara, director of communications at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU): "There finally came a time when holding back...
Brown in 1976 and Harvard in 1977 jumped onto the contact archaeology bandwagon, and other colleges and universities did likewise. But even tax-exempt status will not sustain university "commitments" to research in the strained economy of the 1980s. Post-Bicentennial fervor fell short of expectations for long-team, substantial revenues from historical research...