Word: sustaining
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...criterion for judging the work of U.S. ambassadors. But some officials inside the White House admit that the Administration's attention appears sporadic, limited to calling for elections but then failing to follow through on the tougher, more costly and less glamorous work of building institutions that can sustain democracies. Michael O'Hanlon, a senior foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, says, "The Administration's top-down approach of assuming that elections will solve problems has been too simplistic. You also need educational institutions and economic development...
...death and destruction visited upon innocent Iraqis as a result of U.S. bombings and atrocities like Haditha? I await the day when the Iraqis celebrate a similar good riddance to the U.S. troops as they withdraw from Iraq. Shehzad Ahmed Mir Islamabad Is the Boom Over? "Can Spain sustain?" [June 19] reported on an economic matter that transcends ideological debates and is present in Spain's everyday life. Our economy is too much focused on construction. It has gone well for many years, but apparently we are now at the bubble's bursting point. The increasing price of houses...
...Golan, Professor of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, "but how would they get out?" Golan believes that Defense Minister Peretz, leader of the Labor Party, sees a negotiated political solution as the only chance for long-term stability. That's a difficult argument to sustain in the current climate of hostility, in which violence is escalating. While Shalit's family waits nervously to learn of his fate, Israelis and Palestinians are wondering whether they are nearing the brink - or already past...
...always there for us, fighting for us, and pushing us to do better, do more,” she added. “He believed thoroughly in the power of undergraduates to organize and sustain themselves as an artistic community...
...connect ourselves and then stay connected to the other Americans who do serve in the military and elsewhere without having to sustain a tremendous man-made or natural disaster?” he asked...