Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vietnamese government has ordered its people to build bomb shelters in the event of B-52 raids. During a recent visit to Peking, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong hinted that he expects that the U.S. will again threaten to use tactical nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the prisoners of war languish, and Saigon is planning forced relocation of large numbers of civilians...
...administration and financing of pension funds -by companies or unions. The committee intends to hold further hearings this fall, and will have no lack of examples of mismanagement. Last year officials of the United Mine Workers were found in breach of fiduciary trust for allowing millions in assets to languish in a mine-controlled bank. The D.C. Transit Co. invested $2 million owed to its workers' pension fund to finance its own real estate. Javits' bill would compel fund managers to buy insurance against defaults or bankruptcies...
...repugnant your actions are, they are acceptable as long as you keep them orderly and through proper channels. This is a pathological attitude, and the University suffers from it. It elevates rationality to extravagant heights, presuming that personal commitment, emotions, creativity and subjectivity can safely be ignored, allowed to languish, and be suppressed, and that you can have a meritocratic system based exclusively on analytic abilities and competitiveness without creating warped "successes." While we may not all be "Henry Kissingers on the make." in one way or another we personify similar characteristics...
...real villain is New York City's appallingly inefficient court system. In California, the law requires a trial within 60 days after arrest. In New York, defendants awaiting trial may languish in jail for months because the courts are so congested and the law sets no time limit. The congestion is partly due to aggressive defense attorneys, armed with recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the rights of defendants, who slow the process with pretrial motions on behalf of their clients. Still, there is no excuse for cases like that of one inmate: charged with murder, he has been...
...government tolerates only a narrow range of opposition; some members of the democratic left still languish in jail, including the prominent government opponent, Truong Dinh Dzu. There were no known Communists or Communist sympathizers among the 160 Senate candidates. While none of the 16 slates was endorsed by Thieu's six-party National Democratic and Socialist Front, eleven were considered favorably disposed to the government. The other five kept their criticism mild...