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Expectations that were once routine — that students could competently and sympathetically read and discuss whole volumes, from Pride and Prejudice to Crime and Punishment — are now unsustainable.
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Ian Tuttle, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
By balancing the need for rapid progress with long-term sustainability, this approach presents a path forward that avoids the pitfalls of both overly cautious management and unsustainable growth strategies.
—Roland Siebelink, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Payton is not a fan of streetball, seeing it as unsustainable.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
Every incremental dollar raises the national debt, which many economists believe is already on an unsustainable trajectory.
—Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
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Ian Tuttle, National Review, 9 Oct. 2024
By balancing the need for rapid progress with long-term sustainability, this approach presents a path forward that avoids the pitfalls of both overly cautious management and unsustainable growth strategies.
—Roland Siebelink, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Payton is not a fan of streetball, seeing it as unsustainable.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024
Every incremental dollar raises the national debt, which many economists believe is already on an unsustainable trajectory.
—Michael B. G. Froman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2024
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The collapse of real estate has impaired local government finances so thoroughly that many now face unsupportable debt obligations of their own.Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
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That would in effect make ownership of stocks unsupportable by the rich and this of course would end up crushing all those Americans hoping their stock portfolio will be the source of a happy retirement.Clem Chambers, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
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Workers also have the right to dispute any incomplete, inaccurate, or unverifiable information.Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Investigating these unverifiable fables about aliens should be scrapped as a fool’s errand for AARO, which earlier this year released a historical review demolishing this long-running conspiracy theory.Luis Cayetano Simmari, Scientific American, 26 Sep. 2024
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One fear is therefore that the Collatz problem is one of the unprovable statements of mathematics.Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 July 2024
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Greenwashing involves unfounded or unprovable claims of environmental sustainability.Marisa Garcia, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
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“Unsustainable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsustainable. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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