Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most critics fail to point out why Jerry Lee Lewis has been able to sustain his career for more than 25 years in a business noted for its casualty rate [March 14]. The reason is his relationship with music. Of the American singers of the rock era, only Jerry Lee has kept his performances and recordings alive by paying tribute to the nation's musical heritage of blues, gospel, country and rock 'n' roll...
...alive, it has not succeeded." DeBakey and fellow Houston Transplant Expert Denton Cooley therefore favor transplants, which now offer recipients a 70% to 80% chance of surviving a year and a 42% chance of living five years. The best use of the mechanical heart, says Cooley, may be "to sustain a patient until a donor heart can be found...
...more important than anything else" in achieving a healthy economy. That sentiment coincides, unhappily for the Administration, with the reality of record-breaking deficits. According to the poll, Reagan runs jarringly out of step with public opinion on his defense budget. At a time when he is fighting to sustain increases in military spending, 62% of the voters say that substantial cuts can be made "without jeopardizing national security...
...BEST WAY TO adapt a play so rooted in its niche of history would be to pare down its length. Full of intrigues, setbacks, and mistaken identities, the tragedy seems almost comical, and certainly cannot sustain either the weight of seriousness or the burden of a three-hour-long performance. As written, the plot goes out of its way to lead all the characters into vengeance's grasp: secondary scenes--like the one which shows the death of the wife of Antonio, a nondescript lord--are tortuous and hinder the rest of the play...
...overriding goal is to train the country's economists to sustain the work after the group leaves, he added...