Word: sustaining
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Military leaders denounce Clinton's plan to end the ban on gays, and some have called on congressional allies to help. Ordinary soldiers threaten to harass and hobble implementation or quit their posts en masse -- a tough vow to sustain amid a recession but politically explosive nonetheless. The Navy's Reserve Officers Training Corps program on college campuses has installed, and last week was upholding, a new oath. It requires student sailors to pledge that they are not homosexual and that they will return every penny of their training costs (an average of $52,967 per student) if they...
...throne. The notion of the family monarchy, a Victorian-era invention that accorded a symbolic and public role to royal offspring and consorts as well as to the crown, is on the brink of collapse. None of the four children of Queen Elizabeth II has been able to sustain a stable marriage. Princess Anne has divorced and may remarry, Prince Andrew is separated from his cavorting Duchess, and Prince Edward has not approached the altar or shown signs that he ever will. The scandal over Diana's secretly taped phone coos to a friend has been overshadowed by reports...
...shortfall in the capital campaign would likely mean cutbacks--cutbacks which could threaten student services, worker salaries and even the breadth of academic offerings which sustain Harvard's reputation...
What can explain these striking reversals of all reasonable expectations? The truth is that Bush, even as he tried to flail free of Reagan's absentminded embrace, remained the prisoner of his predecessor. Reaganism without Reagan is not an easy thing to sustain, and Bush's improvements just made things worse. This is evident in the three main areas of his failure...
...Standard Maintenance Allowance is what a specific family supposedly needs to sustain itself. The benchmark family of four with one child in college is allowed $16,180 in living expenses. No adjustment is made for cities with higher living costs. James Belvin Jr., director of Duke University's undergraduate financial-aid office, has "seen it all" when it comes to families trying to wrangle more dollars from the school. "You have people listing more than $1,000 a month for food alone. There's the maid service, dog grooming, country-club fees, tennis and ballet lessons, you name...