Word: bogging
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hated underclass, which they were not in 1975 and are not today; in such a scheme, vagina hatred is imputed to men as automatically as penis envy once was to women. Questions of aesthetics then dissolve, and one is left with a lumbering clash of stereotypes in an ideological bog...
...must act in risky situations on the confidence in his own judgment. He has a responsibility to society not to overstrain its fabric, but he must push it to the limits. He must define that margin where he can influence events. If he exceeds the margin he may bog down. If he goes below the margin he may become irrelevant. If he allows it, the public will project its own insecurities on a leader. Politics is the management of people. It is important to understand the psychology as well as the symptoms of problems...
...McNamara pointed out in his valedictory to the World Bank, the non-oil-exporting nations of the developing world face painful economic adjustments and much slower growth in the years ahead just to keep from sinking any deeper into the petroleum bog. Aid from the industrial nations, complained McNamara, "remains a minuscule and insignificant fraction of their gross national product and is wholly inadequate to the urgent needs at hand...
Though the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) Thursday rejected an immediate strike, it did authorize its bargaining committee to call an immediate walkout should negotiations bog down...
...inflation-battered Cambridge school budget emerged from the school committee last week and headed for city council, arriving two hours before the final deadline and immediately sinking into a new bog of troubles...