Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything they're worth, which isn't more than a few idiosyncrasies. And the plot's chaotic entanglements are as predictable as the first few tricky moves of a cat's cradle. The rivals, Bob Acres and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, vie for the hand of lovely Lydia Languish, who remains cloistered under the guardianship of her old-maid aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. Disguised as Ensign Beverly, Captain Absolute has already secretly won Lydia's favor, but when his father, Anthony Absolute arranges his marriage to Lydia using his real title, Lydia rebuffs...
...that control of even small blocks of stock "by a single or few like-minded financial institutions provides them with disproportionately large powers." Because institutional investors are attracted to the largest companies, the few men who control block purchases and sales often allow the stocks of smaller firms to languish. This has led to a two-tier stock market in which sound small and medium-sized corporations often cannot raise needed equity capital...
...been as much as 2½ years behind the norm for their grade in reading. From now on, however, students in grades four through eight will not be promoted if they are more than a year behind. Even under the new policy, slow readers would not be forced to languish year after year in the same grade. Except in rare cases, students will not be held back more than once in elementary and once in junior high. Those who repeatedly fail to meet eighth-and ninth-grade standards will nonetheless eventually be admitted to high school...
Still, investigators for both the Cox staff and the Senate Watergate committee are understandably curious as to why Rebozo would allow $100,000 to languish for three years in a safe-deposit box in his Key Biscayne bank, as he claims, where he could not even collect interest on it. Moreover, one of the payments was made on the very day that Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, apparently as a favor to the President, were concluding a deal to buy a chunk of Nixon's property in San Clemente...
...Georgia has filed suit to overturn presidential impoundments of funds that were authorized by Congress. Georgia wants the Supreme Court Justices to hear the case directly-without the delays of the appeals procedure.* Bork might well have opposed such a move, preferring to let the question of presidential power languish for a while in lower courts. Instead last month, Bork agreed with Georgia that the impoundment issue should be faced now by the court...