Word: withstand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experience of hundreds of families in southern Florida contradicts the image Miller projects. They have accused Lennar Corporation, which he founded and now chairs, of building substandard homes too weak to withstand the battering of Hurricane Andrew...
...pride is bad, then one doesn't dare seem proud of being good. Both Bill and Hillary came to Washington promising an end to politics as usual, a rebirth of responsibility, a Politics of Meaning derived from the Golden Rule. Such a specific claim to moral authority can hardly withstand charges of tax chiseling and corner cutting by Hillary and those closest to her. "Can a President credibly advance an ethic of national service," asked Clinton's nemesis on the Hill, Congressman Jim Leach, "if his own model is one of self-service...
Hoffmann added that Europe's economic position is threatened by cheap labor from the Pacific Rim nations. Not even Germany's lauded industrial sector can long withstand the dumping of low-cost products like textiles and clothing, he said...
...research which was published in Science (October 1962) describes tests that were conducted at the Wrentham School from December 1961 to April 1962 to measure the body's ability to withstand and recover from fallout from fallout from nuclear explosions. Is the tests, about 60 children between the ages of one and 11 were given sodium iodide in increasing doses to measure the body's ability to absorb and discharge radioactive material...
...fear that the calendar torture persists largely because administrators are able to withstand complaints long enough for each crop of students to graduate...