Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allison concedes that this mechanism, aimed at decentralizing the decision-making process, will prove harder to sustain as the faculty grows larger. In many ways, then, the signals he emits are those of the prototypical bureaucrat, a functional organizer and manager extraordinaire...
...past, Oates' touch has often been too heavy to sustain her fantasies. Ironically, in the barocco world of Bellefleur she is deft and self-assured. Even her contrived ending cannot mar a work that immeasurably enriches the 200-year-old tradition of the gothic novel...
...needed to create new blight-and pest-resistant hybrids will vanish. Paradoxically, some environmental problems may be the consequence of the best of intentions. As farmers try to squeeze more food out of their fields by irrigation, the soil's salinity will increase, thus impairing its ability to sustain crops. Less predictable, but no less frightening: a possible global heating from the growing volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere-expected to rise a third over preindustrial levels by century's end from continued burning of fossil fuels...
...auspicious opening was a difficult act to follow, and many Farmerites wondered whether the Riverworld was wide enough to sustain a projected tetralogy. The author's next works allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life...
Whether he can sustain his skill remains to be seen. Carter was profoundly impressed with the Roman Colosseum and Forum, which he had never seen before. Venice fascinated him by being so much different from anything he had known or expected. But as he sped toward home, the images of imperial grandeur faded. The President still seems to yearn for self-denial and simplicity, which are terribly hard to come by in the crowd with which he travels...