Word: sustains
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...weaker than either of its eventual allies, the Soviet Union and the U.S. Defeats in 1940 had weakened it further, as had the liquidation of its international investments to fund its early war efforts. During 1942, the prestige Britain had won as Hitler's only enemy allowed Churchill to sustain parity of leadership in the anti-Nazi alliance with Roosevelt and Stalin...
Speaking before a standing-room only crowd at the ARCO Forum, Connerly, who spearheaded the 1995 drive to end affirmative action in the state university system and later advocated an amendment to the California state constitution, said the American "experiment" in democracy could not sustain itself if government institutions used race as a factor to remedy society's ills...
...only question now is how far can the team sustain this effort. Two more wins earn the Crimson a bid into the NCAA tournament at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Beat Clarkson and then either Yale or Princeton and they...
...genius of Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman, the creators of Party of Five, has been to understand the entertainment value of emotional pain. The show is about a family of five orphans and it features enough heavy talk and tragedy to sustain an A.A. chapter. As presented by Keyser and Lippman, though, the relentless suffering is positively enjoyable. That is so partly because Party of Five offers the guilty pleasure of watching other people's troubles, but the show is much finer than any soap. When the competence of Julia (played by Neve Campbell with sensuous innocence and gravity) wounds...
...This date is an implosion," Munnell said. "Even after [2029], there are sufficient funds to sustain most of the program...