Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems, is Barry Hannah. There are few writers today who can match Hannah for sheer sustain--for the ability to keep extraordinary excess under control. He resists the usual literary tricks, the epiphanies and the neat endings, the sly references and displays of prodigious learning. Instead he revels in our perversity. He points to the airports, the pimps and the pinups and remains dazzled, amazed, repulsed and fascinated. He distills it all and produces the literary equivalent of grain Alcohol--a genuine Purple Jesus...
...service functions, which are increasingly dependent on better-educated employees. Thus a traditional means of upward mobility for the poor has been blocked. The report states that it is self-defeating to try to reindustrialize the central cities; too much federal aid is given in a vain effort to sustain them, and not enough is given directly to the poor. According to the report, the poor should be helped by a guaranteed minimum income, by job training and by assistance in migrating to areas where work is available. Instead of trying to bring jobs to people, the Government should take...
...energy resources remain largely untapped. Her leaders seem unwilling to dole out oil to the superpower to the north, whose reputation in Mexico for ruthless imperialism lingers still. As contributor Kevin J. Middlebrook '72 notes, "The high political sensitivity of this issue would make it difficult for Mexico to sustain any long-term commitment." So until widespread use of synthetic fuels becomes a reality-unlikely until after the year 2000-the U.S. can only pray that its Persian Gulf sources remain unimpeded...
...Shah in Egypt; and Tito, who one thought would live forever. In the background, like presiding ghosts, the hostages in Iran serve as emblems of national impotence; Walter Cronkite's counting of the days growing weary and meaningless among Milquetoast threats and a tragic rescue fiasco. As if to sustain the world's heartache, the year heads toward Christmas with the killing of a Beatle...
...their incomes over the past decade than previously estimated. Between July and September, wage earners put away a prudent 6.1% of their disposable income, rather than the anemic 4.7% reported earlier. Observed Courtenay Slater, chief economist of the Commerce Department: "The notion that people are dipping into savings to sustain consumption is probably slightly exaggerated." The new figures also gave a somewhat brighter picture of the nation's lagging productivity. Real output per hour worked grew at an average annual rate of 3.2% between 1969 and 1979, instead of the 2.9% previously estimated...