Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this massive feeding frenzy is the Los Angeles courtroom, out of which fly the bits of juicy meat that titillate and sustain the O.J. industry. That pit is wired for live action: the TV networks have flown in their war-coverage equipment from Haiti and erected scaffolding several stories high, portable satellite dishes and stages around the courthouse. With Dan and Connie chomping at the bit, CBS news, always a leader in entertainment, has laid 55,000 feet--more than 10 miles--of cable...
...time we asked ourselves where reality stops and a fabricated image begins. Just how much involvement do the media have in creating the events which sustain them...
...ground combat force would sustain casualties on the order of magnitude of Somalia or worse. And just like in Somalia, US forces would have to be committed to an area of no strategic or vital interest for an undetermined amount of time...
...People who sustain spinal-cord injuries are often rushed into surgery; the idea is to relieve swelling and thus reduce the chance of permanent paralysis. But this may amount to taking an unnecessary risk. A study has found that one year after the trauma, people who went under the knife immediately were no better off, on average, than those who didn...
...flurry of partisan bickering, the House Banking Committee began its hearings into the Whitewater affair. A series of Administration figures offered the unsurprising testimony that they had not interfered with a government investigation of the failed S&L at the heart of the Whitewater matter. Republicans, hoping to sustain an air of scandal, charged that Administration actions nevertheless served as an example of "Me generation public ethics...