Word: languishes
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...Watch Group had been imprisoned, forced to emigrate or exiled within the Soviet Union. The remaining three reluctantly disbanded the organization, admitting, "The group cannot fulfill its duties." The New York City-based Helsinki Watch Committee this month cited estimates that as many as 10,000 political prisoners still languish in Soviet jails and labor camps...
...JUSTICE SYSTEM EQUIPPED TO TRY TERRORISM CASES, OR WILL PEOPLE HAVE TO LANGUISH IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY? We face a challenge when we do identify somebody and we have very good, solid evidence that that person is a terrorist, but it's not admissible in court because its either highly classified or it comes from a foreign source. It is a challenge, and at the worst it is helping the enemy...
Henry graduated to editor-in-chief of Time Inc. in 1979, supervising the editorial content of all our publications, including FORTUNE, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE and MONEY. And after that? He was not the type to languish in retirement. In 1988 Ronald Reagan made him U.S. ambassador to Austria, allowing Henry to return in glory to the nation he had fled. His first task was to communicate Washington's displeasure with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, a Nazi collaborator during...
...Performance of the Week For two years Miramax let it languish. But with Quentin Tarantino's imprimatur, Zhang Yimou's Hero finally hit U.S. theaters on Aug. 27?and what a hit it was. In its first weekend the multi-hued martial-arts thriller, which stars Jet Li as an imperial assassin, earned $18 million?a record opening for an Asian movie and the second best for a foreign language film after The Passion of the Christ...
...November. Not only did such misfortune jeopardize my previously formulated summer plans (though admittedly Cambridge weather is quite pleasant during the summer), it also failed to mitigate my academic distress. So, while my fellow classmates routinely indulge in the hedonistic pleasures of senior bar, I have been compelled to languish in Lamont, toiling over courses that have very little relevance to my professional aspirations. You can be sure that the countdown has started! I can even tell you how many seconds are left...