Word: languishes
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...fated virtual world Lively, which will close at the end of month). "If they could fix their expense management, surely they could fix their product development as well. Google has a very poor product-development process," says Lindsay, who criticizes the firm for letting good products languish while encouraging engineers to tackle newer and more exciting projects instead. For example, its Chrome browser got positive reviews when it was released this summer, but it hasn't been marketed or significantly updated since then...
...long can a practice languish in obsolescence and still be called a tradition? If anything, Harvard has proven itself actively hostile to the notion of a Game-inspired festival of self-celebration, a surprising counterpoint to the self-obsessed character many ascribe to our student body. Whether this sorry record is fuelled by a collective lack of interest in football or a collective inability to become excited, it must mean something...
...Burma's ruling brass still appears spooked by the power of the people. "Burma's leaders are clearing the decks of political activists," says Pearson, "before they announce the next round of sham political reforms." Overall, one Burmese exile group based in Thailand estimates that 2,120 Burmese now languish in jail for their political activism, nearly double the number who were in prison before last year's anti-government demonstrations...
...based extracurricular opportunities with the appropriate resources will serve to both increase the presence of math as something useful and non-threatening and provide some a more social outlet to counter stereotypes of math’s “nerdiness.” For too long, mathematics has languished in academic and social disrepute among elementary and high schools students. Changing the social perception of math is integral to its revival as a culturally valued subject. Janet E. Mertz, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, laments the social stereotyping in math: “Kids in high school...
Sometimes you're accused of being a sellout, like they expect you to languish in obscurity forever just for them. That's unreasonable. The people who do get angry at you for going off and doing a Hollywood film, it's like you've betrayed them. I don't even know who "they...