Word: sustaining
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Other cities were having the same experience, until it became impossible to sustain the illusion that all a pregnant, crack-addicted teenage prostitute with AIDS needed was a place to call home. From that admission was born the concept of linkage. Rather than merely providing a shelter, homeless advocates are weaving a web. By combining detoxification programs, job training, day care, parenting classes, health care and social services under one roof, they can help the street people who are unwilling or unable to travel all over town to find the services they need -- if those services exist...
...Brien said there also was no evidence to sustain Dershowitz's allegation that Mahoney's previous bid for a judgeship in 1982 was opposed by Mahoney's then boss, Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne, who is now deceased...
...Bush's supporters, like Senator John McCain of Arizona, do not want to hear dissent about American strategy in the Gulf. "The issue," McCain says, "its not prerogatives, it is patriotism." But if there is any lesson from Vietnam, it is that patriotism alone will not long suffice to sustain public support...
...unrelated. The seeds of violence are here, as everywhere. They exist in deeply rooted differences of belief, in individual intolerance, uncertainties, and frustration, in institutional inertia, and in intensly competitive situations with high personal stakes. Civilisation is a fragile veneer requiring constant vigilance and effort to sustain. It requires everyone to make commitments for the common good...
Starting next year, Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate to sustain a gubernatorial veto. In the House, they will bring their numbers to 38. In a body of 160, that's still not a lot, but legislators say there is a block of new Democratic representatives who will be swayed by Weld's mandate as governor...