Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will shoot you, they will do what they want depending on their mood." The reasons are largely economic: "Everyone is still armed and there is no revenue coming into the country. Authorities have been asking soldiers to just lay down their arms and try to find a way to sustain themselves in a peaceful society, but they do not have the resources. If you are a 20-year-old militia man who can get a television and a sack of grain in five minutes with your AK-47, why are you going to put it down...
With common sense and the ability to think clearly, the council needs me to sustain its reputation. The ball is in our court and the council has not been playing its best game. The result of recent irresponsibility is inaction...
...report does Rudenstine allow that diversity might pose a problem for excellence. A reader would have to infer that possibility from Rudenstine's avoidance of it. In his thinking, the goal of diversity is on a par with excellence or above it. He says that "the need to sustain rigorous academic standards is clear." But he adds that "the more difficult and genuine challenge" is to secure diversity...
...truth is just the opposite. It is easy to indulge "other significant values" than excellence and to pretend that nothing has happened and that our patron saint John Stuart Mill would smile on us. What is hard is to sustain excellence against the temptation of other values that appear to be more significant...
...continues to admit students regardless of financial need. Harvard also ensures that the financial needs of all admitted students are met. Currently, two-thirds of Harvard undergraduates receive some form of financial aid. However, if the cost of tuition continues to mount so rapidly, we wonder how Harvard can sustain this commitment. Thus, we urge the University to attempt to continue slowing the rate of tuition increases in the coming years...