Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defeat the Eagles, the Crimson will need to sustain its superb goaltending and find scoring opportunities for its potent offense...
...have co-opted crime, welfare and budget balancing, but he can't turn into a Republican on this subject without losing a key constituency--the women who account for his double-digit lead. In that context, White House officials take comfort in the fact that the Senate will probably sustain the veto without their having to play hardball. "We respect that people have differences on this issue," says an aide. "We're not going out there twisting arms and cutting deals...
...Rosens instead plan to blow away the field in part because Harold and his team of engineers have solved a set of daunting technological issues just in the past year. Harold is, after all, a rocket scientist. For instance, he has been able to create and sustain a relatively pure vacuum in which the flywheel spins, using such exotic devices as molecular drag pumps and molecular sieves. A better vacuum means less friction, thus better spin. He also has been able to suspend the rapidly spinning flywheel in its unstable environment by using sophisticated gimbals and magnetic bearings--something very...
...limit on motherhood. A young woman, for instance, might wish to have some eggs frozen, in case she chooses to become pregnant later in life. For most women past 35, fertility declines sharply, simply because their eggs have become too old to be viable. But their bodies can still sustain a pregnancy, and many could give birth if they could just get access to healthy eggs. Until now the only option has been to use an egg from a younger donor, but some day they may be able to use their own frozen eggs...
...exotic travels, he was enchanted by their immortality--until his hosts set him straight. By age 80, most of the Struldbruggs were "melancholy and dejected," so cut off from pleasure that they were "dead to natural affection." By 90, they were so senile that they could neither sustain a conversation nor read a book. Left alone to combat their assorted physical ailments, Struldbruggs could at best look forward to an eternity of "envy and impotent desires." They were, Gulliver concluded, "the most mortifying sight I ever beheld...