Word: languishes
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Anyone who has logged onto the website of the Undergraduate Council (UC) recently—perhaps hoping to languish away an afternoon filling out grant applications or reading news (“Record Crowd Attends Springfest”) from 2004—understands that it fails miserably at its most rudimentary purpose: functionality. Besides stale grant applications, the site’s voting system has proven difficult to configure in the past, and individuals still have access to the system who have long since departed Sever...
...ever since. It is also a symbol of a sport's resurrection: what is popularly called ultimate fighting was chased off TV in 1997 and banned by almost every state because of its no-holds-barred, pound-to-pulp violence. Relegated to outlaw arenas, it appeared doomed to languish forever as "human cockfighting," in the words of its critics...
...said. Some city buses were dispatched to take people without cars to the Superdome to ride out the storm. But there is no indication that buses also ferried people out of the city, beyond the reach of water. In fact, a fleet of several hundred buses was left to languish in a lot that eventually flooded...
...question now facing the Ways and Means version of the tax bill is how the Reagan Administration will react. Unless the President decides to push it through Congress, the proposal will languish as legislators deal with other pressing issues like the budget and trade deficits. The White House has so far postponed taking a stand on it. Reporters inquired about the President's attitude toward the plan last week, when he appeared for a holiday photo session with a 55-Ib. gobbler named Wilfred. Quipped Reagan: "The only questions I will take today are about the turkey...
...explained to your reporter that I thought Budget Director Stockman undercut his own budgets by taking extreme positions that lacked credibility in the Congress and by letting it be known privately that he thought tax increases were the answer to the deficit. Congress responded by letting budget cuts languish while waiting for the Administration to propose another tax increase. Since 1982 there have been four legislated tax increases (the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, known as TEFRA, which repealed much of the business tax cut of the previous year; the gasoline tax; the 1983 Social Security amendments...