Word: withstands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been only 60 years, and at least one authority, Columbia professor Robert Thurman, states grimly that as far as he is concerned, a true, indigenous Buddhism doesn't yet exist here. But others are convinced that for the first time, American Buddhism may be strong enough not only to withstand the distortions of celebrity but also to attract and hold a significant number of serious searchers. And short of a full transplanting, who would have imagined that the lotus would have offered up such a wild and confusing profusion of blooms...
...same time, Holland acknowledges that "my situation was much easier, because Washington Square is one of the easiest of James's novels." Because "the plot is very, very simple," her source material could withstand a more conservative adaptation than could the more intricate and interior Portrait undertaken by Campion...
...What makes an atomic disaster so unlikely? Heat-resistant ceramic jackets around each plutonium pellet, which can easily withstand the temperature of reentry and the force of an explosion. If the system does fail, Cassini's opponents warn, trace amounts of plutonium could be inhaled and cause cancers of the lung, bone and liver. NASA's response: the average exposure would equal about 2 millirems over 50 years, a dose so mild that it makes standing next to your microwave look dangerous...
...usually the drug of choice for bloodless medicine because of its stimulative effect on red-blood-cell production. Hormones and vitamin B12 are also prescribed to encourage cell production. Doctors may employ a hyperbaric chamber to flood patients' blood with higher concentrations of oxygen so that they can better withstand surgical procedures and low blood levels, while oximetry devices and other noninvasive monitoring equipment keep close watch over oxygen levels...
Since 1995, Rudenstine has called for more research to quantify the advantages of diversity, and at a conference at Harvard last spring a number of nationally-recognized attorneys told participants that the current research on diversity is not substantial enough to withstand a court's scrutiny...