Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known for producing upsets, continued the tradition this year. Sharif Khan, world champion and number one seed, fell to qualified Mark Alger of Seattle, fresh out of the junior ranks, in five games. Ahead 8-1 in the fifth and deciding game in the quarterfinal round, Khan could not sustain the momentum necessary for victory...
...next two years, the country's conservative mood will be reflected in the nominally Democratic House. The ideas that carried Reagan to victory-his tax cut plans, energy proposals, austere budget goals-will find plenty of adherents, certainly enough to sustain any vetoes if not to pass all the new President's initiatives. This month the old House will meet in a lameduck session. But given the size of the Republican mandate, House leaders will postpone anything more ambitious than tidying up the current budget until the 97th Congress convenes in January...
...first prong of the defense was clearly necessary for the second. Without the claim that the Court behaved like an independent judicial body, Ambassador Barros' pejorative assessment of American behavior would have been difficult to sustain. All things considered, if the Court did not behave properly and independently, perhaps there was good reason for the United States to be displeased...
...week to politically important Texas (26 electoral votes) on an ostensibly nonpolitical mission to answer critics who claim that the U.S. military is woefully unprepared. Quite the contrary, insisted Brown. The U.S., he said, is "ready to go to war, if need be, and we are increasingly able to sustain our forces in combat...
Although they compliment and sustain one another on the course, Beckford and Linsley rival Felix and Oscar as the Odd Couple...