Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half-breeds" must prove paternity and locate the father who abandoned them years ago--an often next-to-impossible task. As it is now, without this suitable "anchor" in the U.S. under the law, these kids have little claim to emigrate to the States and are thus left to languish...
...were among the first of 381 Cuban refugees ordered freed by Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob of Atlanta. Of the more than 125,000 Cubans who flooded onto the shores of south Florida last year, some 1,800 still languish in the Atlanta prison. Two weeks ago, Judge Shoob ran out of patience. Calling the Cubans "people" and "not numbers," he ordered federal officials to release 381 who were imprisoned simply because they had entered the U.S. without the proper papers. Government lawyers did not object to freeing the 155 who had already been cleared by the Immigration and Naturalization...
From the rusting spans of its once proud bridges to the leaking sewers beneath its streets, America is structurally unsound. Highways are crumbling. Avenues are cracking. Trains jump their worn-out tracks. Coal ships languish outside overburdened ports. While the U. S. has the technological prowess to blast a magnificent space shuttle into orbit and land it gently back on earth, it has failed to care properly for its most important public works...
...year. The missives dropped into oblivion with hardly a sound. There is simply nothing to do with them. The circle of magazines with significant readership trafficking in short fiction remains plodding and exclusive, and, young short story writers are left to show their work to their girlfriends and to languish with the melodrama of art. Worse, publishers droop when a collection of short stories claws its way onto their desks, especially if it's produced by an unestablished writer. What young writer--besides Jayne Anne Phillips. Ann Beattie and Barry Hannah?--has been awarded a whole volume of short stories...
Instead of taking the politically foolish position of calling for repeal of the act, and thus appearing to be in favor of worldwide bribery by American business, the Administration seems to be indicating, whether intentionally or otherwise, that it is prepared to let enforcement of the act languish. Indeed, the President's transition team on the workings of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which shares enforcement jurisdiction over the act with the Justice Department, has recommended decriminalization of bribery...