He reveals, or even fortifies, the fact that self-parody has become the life-support system of international art infrastructures.

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But what they may now be forced to do is to turn off the life-support system that has kept lots of their biggest borrowers mainly construction firms and property developers from going bust.

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But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.

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Indeed, USTEC worked closely with the Gorbachev regime (and its predecessors) to promote conditions which would enable its members to tap into U.S. taxpayer guarantees and other federal assistance, enriching participating companies and providing desperately needed life-support for the communist system.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Interestingly, in the final years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev launched a charm offensive aimed at Western investors in the hope of keeping a failing communist system on Western life-support until the Kremlin could construct a more viable economic system (one such gambit was the oxymoronic "command market" economy).

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Lessened demand on Western taxpayers' resources for agricultural credits and other forms of life-support for the vestiges of the old Soviet centralized system.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

We are familiar with the wide range of animals and plants that share our planet but are less familiar with the vital role biodiversity plays in maintaining our mutual life support system, and in both the physical and mental aspects of our well-being.

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Once the support and fund-raising system is in place, it can take on a life of its own.

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