Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure, which would allow but not require each of the services to certify women pilots for combat missions, won little support among the military brass. Said former Marine Commandant Robert H. Barrow: "Women give life. Sustain life. Nurture life. They don't take it." Despite such reservations, the Pentagon is likely to go along grudgingly with the policy...
POLITICS. Although black and Hispanic voters have often united behind candidates from one group or the other, attempts to weld long-lasting political coalitions in most large cities have been difficult to sustain. A case in point: the Latino-black alliance that helped elect Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor in 1983. Nearly 7 out of 10 Hispanics voted for Washington and gained a voice in local politics they had never had before. Acknowledging the importance of the Hispanic vote, Washington appointed Latinos to several key positions...
...issues like the crime and civil rights bills. "The Democrats aren't beating us anywhere right now, and we want to keep it that way," says a senior White House official. "The President has them beaten in approval ratings. When he vetoes a bill, we're able to sustain it. When he wants to go to war, we're able to force Congress to go along. The only place the Democrats have really been able to hurt us is in the confirmation of appointees, as they did with John Tower. So we'd obviously like to avoid giving them more...
...insurer plunged headlong into the high-yield bond market controlled by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken and puffed up its $10.1 billion asset base with $6.4 billion in risky junk bonds. Once the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive Corp., Executive Life's holding company, began to sustain huge losses. California insurance officials are now investigating other large insurers to determine whether they also are too heavily invested in junk bonds...
...institute is one of the jewels in the crown of the Soviet military- industrial complex, the vast archipelago of factories, ministries, design bureaus and think tanks that exists to sustain and strengthen the country's armed forces. While the Soviet Union's other power centers -- the Communist Party, the army marshals and generals, the KGB -- are well known in the West, the military-industrial complex has received far less attention...