Word: sustaining
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...brother and I had to sneak TV when our parents went out. We'd listen for the car coming up the driveway and then run up and turn it off. Under supervision, we were only allowed to watch nature programs and operas," Bertozzi says. Apparently Don Giovanni can't sustain the interest of American children...
...debate rages on. Is "90210" as kitsch and cliche was some partisans claim, will the trashy plots of "Melrose" doom it to the TV junk heap, and can Bailey and the gang provide enough melodrama to sustain Harvard's "`Party' parties?" Only time will tell...
...anticommunist crusade could not be replicated through the weak Cuban church. Some think he realized it was time to embrace the religious hunger in the nation and find ways to dampen discontent. But he was probably driven as much by practical concerns as Cuba begged for European investment to sustain its hard climb out of economic catastrophe. The more Castro wanted foreign money, the more he had to recast Cuba in an acceptably Western light. A visit from the Pope would help solve so many of these problems...
Neither Eighner nor his benefactors seem to know exactly what happens next, since the most money he can see on the horizon is $1,500 in the form of various advances, fees and royalties--hardly enough to sustain him for long. As a single male without a conventional disability, he can expect little help from the government. "What I really need," muses Eighner, "is for someone to say 'We got you covered' for a couple of months so I can get to work on a new book...
Most obviously, we have bought a name. But the glamour of a name can only sustain us for so long--and in this case it fades during our first year. In some ways it is necessary. Only by treating Harvard as our own College, and dismissing the fact that our time here is a mere speck in its history, can we take advantage of the opportunities...