Word: sustainingly
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...During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
During the late 1980s, historian Paul Kennedy popularized the notion of "imperial overstretch." It was a variant on Walter Lippmann's notion of "insolvency" in foreign policy, when a country's resources simply cannot underpin and sustain its ambitions. Some, like Kennedy, saw this happening to the U.S. in the 1980s. As a result, they predicted an "American decline...
...course they are. One only needs to read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" written over 2,000 years ago. It constantly counsels against fighting protracted wars, which is what Iraq has become, and the U.S. troops can't and shouldn't be expected to sustain it. Steve Turbit Sydney, Australia...
...Qaeda's objective is not to defeat the U.S. at home; it is to drive the U.S. out of Muslim lands. The standing of the U.S. in Arab and Muslim countries has declined, rather than risen, in the two years since 9/11, and that more than anything will help sustain al-Qaeda...
...Reed plays Evie, who moves in on a slightly disheveled but still functioning family and leads the daughter Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) to the brink of disaster. It contains a nice, dithering performance by Holly Hunter as a mom making a living by hairdressing at home while trying to sustain a relationship with an unpromising guy (Jeremy Sisto). In the latter, the mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her kid are magically obliged to switch roles, with Mom enduring a day as a teenager and the teenager taking over the woman's psychology practice...