Word: sustaining
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...roughly half the troops used in 1991--a revolution in the way the U.S. fights wars. Baghdad fell in 21 days, and the U.S. suffered 103 combat fatalities. The plan, according to retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Jay Farrar, "proved to the Army that it can go in lighter and sustain itself longer than it ever imagined...
That President Bush has politicized the Iraq war is not novel. The chief executive of any state waging a war depends on the political will of the people to support that war until its conclusion. The campaign to sustain the public's political will includes appeals to patriotism, freedom, democracy and sacrifice and is a recurring theme in American history. Abraham Lincoln constantly worried about those who criticized the Civil War for its enormous loss of life and its aim of ending slavery to save the Union. And while World War II raged in Europe, F.D.R. had to defend...
...these are not huge losses, and Jay-Z’s guest spot on “Wake Up” is discharged with the appropriate skill and brevity. Missy is still possibly the most exciting mainstream hip-hop artist around, even if she can’t quite sustain it over an entire album...
...pieces from relatively unknown composers with “a distinctively American” sound that any audience can relate to. David cites that these “musical experiments” and collaborative efforts—including an unusual collaboration with Phish—have helped the quartet sustain the magic during their career...
...sports-related head injuries each year. While most are mild and result in no lasting damage, the larger concern, according to an NCAA study of 3,000 football players in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, is when players return to the field too soon and sustain a second, more serious injury. For an athlete with a concussion, say experts, there seems to be a 7-to-10-day window of increased susceptibility for suffering another one. Their advice: Wait this one out on the bench...