Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against the Tribe, the Crimson put together some of its best moments during the first few minutes of the game, yet the team was ultimately unable to sustain its high level of play. With a huge defensive breakdown and a lack of communication, the Crimson was not able to succumb to its opposition...
...feminism is going to be a vital movement, then it is going to have to be able to sustain criticism," she added...
...Mitt has said from the beginning that as U.S. Senator he'd vote to sustain a woman's right to choose," said Massachusetts Secretary of Economic Affairs Gloria Larson, who was quoted in the statement...
...swift rise in interest rates that the Federal Reserve engineered this year to forestall inflation. The abrupt increases reversed a four-year trend in which interest rates had steadily fallen, and in the process hammered bonds, money-market funds and other investments that relied on continued low rates to sustain their value. "In the long bull market in interest rates, people got sloppy and forgot that there would be a limit to that too," says Bruce Greenwald, a finance professor at the Columbia Business School...
...Carolina, who is battling to shelter his state's powerful textile interests from the global competition that other U.S. industries and workers are facing -- and winning. Senate leaders vowed to press for a vote this week or during a special session in late November. But optimism was hard to sustain in the twilight of a session where the obstructionists sounded so gleeful and the serious legislators, of both parties, looked resigned to failure...