Measurements of the costs of the activities that contributed to those achievements, and the costs of maintaining core activities needed for sustaining achievements, are also essential.
Although sustaining achievements is challenging, the UHRC model has helped to garner NGO support from the Government of India for its "communitization" efforts.
Sustaining achievements in Latin America and the Caribbean Country programmes for Haiti and Nicaragua were presented by Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Director Bernt Aasen.
Nina Watt (Limón), Karen Graham David Gordon Pick Upp Company and Dominique Mercyy (Ms. Bausch) won awards for sustained achievement.
Dr. Leaf's career toggled between pure scientific research and medical practice; unusually for the medical world, he sustained achievement in both realms.
And Ms. Banes won a special citation for sustained achievement as the authority on the dance postmodernists of the 1960's and their artistic heirs.
Obie Awards The playwright John Guare, below, and the director Doug Hughes were cited for sustained achievement when The Village Voice's annual Obie Awards were presented on Monday night.
Artists rarely develop in a strictly linear fashion, with promising juvenilia followed by increasing skill, climaxing in sustained achievement and the final masterwork or two.
Mr. Cunningham waved cheerily to the audience as it rose, to present an award for sustained achievement to Robert Swinston, a longtime Cunningham dancer and assistant to the choreographer.
An evening of his songs was featured in Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, and he received an OBIE Award for sustained achievement.
The band's three finest albums ("Stand!," from 1969, "There's a Riot Goin' On," from 1971, and "Fresh," from 1973) represent a sustained achievement equalled only by the Beatles or Stevie Wonder.
