Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winning basketball teams. And records of 8-18 (Harvard) and 7-11 (Radcliffe) aren't quite what the tournament committees have in mind. Sure the Celtics will eventually be going after yet another flag to flaunt from the Garden rafters but until then Harvard hoop fans will have to languish in their rooms dispassionately watching an endless stream of regional triple headers...
BRITAIN, the industrial world's perennial postwar invalid, continues to languish. Output this year will be a bit below that of 1974, and Common Market experts predict zero growth next year as well. Meanwhile, exports are sluggish and living standards are dropping. Unemployment has passed the politically sensitive level of a million workers and could hit 1.5 million this winter. Prime Minister Wilson's Labor Government can do little to stimulate the economy because inflation, despite price controls, is already roaring along at an annual rate of 27.9%, highest in any major nation...
...Orleans prison constituted cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the convict population cut from 1,200 to 450; it is still almost double that. Federal courts in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have acted similarly, with similar results. Convicts for whom there is no room in state prisons languish in overcrowded county jails. A group of county sheriffs in Georgia has threatened to go to federal court because the 700 prisonbound convicts in their jails are "a threat to their communities...
...resettling all the refugees. First it was July 1, then Aug. 1-and now Nov. 1. Skeptics doubt that the program can be completed before next spring. About 48,000 refugees-more than one-third of the total-have been "out-processed" to homes. Meanwhile, 62,000 still languish in four refugee camps in the U.S., and 18,000 have not yet left way stations on Guam and Wake Island...
...Ford thus gave his support to operations that helped destroy Latin America's oldest democracy. The junta that overthrew the popularly-elected Allende government almost exactly one year ago now rules Chile with an iron fist. Thousands were killed in the aftermath of the coup, and uncounted political prisoners languish in cramped cells, where they are tortured until they "confess." The extensive slums on the edges of Santiago are subject to brutal purges by government troops. The press and other media are rigorously censored, and military leader Gen. Augustus Pinochet says that it may be decades before Chile is "ready...