Word: sustaining
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...India-Pakistan relations. While President Clinton said they underlined the need for dialogue with Pakistan, Mr. Vajapayee warned that "we have the will and the means to eliminate this menace." There's considerable pressure in New Delhi to punish Pakistan for the low-key anti-India insurgency it helps sustain in Kashmir. So what Clinton recently described as "the most dangerous region in the world" is likely to stay pretty dangerous, although the President hopes to make the danger more manageable by strengthening Washington's relationship with leaders on both sides. More important, Washington doesn't want those dangers...
...based to a large degree on a desire to prevent people from poor countries moving to Europe to live off the welfare state. Yet that very welfare system is now threatened by the fact that in time, a diminishing, aging population will no longer produce sufficient wealth to sustain it. Most of Europe's welfare states were created for relatively homogeneous populations, but the only way to sustain them may be to embrace heterogeneity...
...Wall Street are complaining about Greenspan's tack. There is general consensus that the economy cannot sustain its current level of growth, which is at the gaudy 5 percent-plus level, and needs to be nudged back down to about 3.5 percent. There is, however, a considerable contingent on the Street that wishes Greenspan would deliver the lumps all at once. While Greenspan argues that the gradual approach will allow for a "soft landing" at a sustainable economic growth rate, this group believes that the gradual rate increases are being ignored by the public - a state of affairs that could...
...Gunn says the University's refusal to allow a Harvard detachment is beside the point, since there are too few Harvard students involved in MIT's detachment to sustain a detachment. Ten students currently participate in the program from Harvard...
Bottom line: one dominant period of hockey won't bring home a conference championship. A fast start is great, but the Crimson must sustain a high level of play for the entire game to defend its title...