Word: sustains
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...Afghanistan slipping out of America's control? It's an especially relevant question at a time when Pentagon planners are holding up Afghanistan as a template for possible "regime change" in Iraq. Failure to pacify Afghanistan could make it tougher for the Bush Administration to sustain support for a new war against Saddam Hussein. "If Afghanistan falls," says an Army officer in Washington, "Iraq just got that much harder...
After being blanked by Brown last week, Harvard came out strong in the first period, as the Crimsson was able to sustain pressure in the Big Green’s end, and generate quality scoring opportunities...
...Green could sustain no offense beyond cherry-picking, which seemed to be a feasible strategy at the outset, when freshman Katherine Weatherston got behind the defense and scored on a breakaway...
Citing “vast changes in advanced research in the past few decades” and the “formalistic” distinction between general education and the concentrations, Rosovky called for a major effort to ensure that “the people who intellectually sustain Harvard College...believe in its importance...
...matter, that can’t be experienced in any other setting,” Black says. “Sure, you might feel competition in whatever class to succeed, but its not the same as that primal feeling you get when teamed with 10 other guys trying to sustain a touchdown drive. So I guess on a very basic level I miss the sheer exhilaration of being part of the game...