Word: protractedness
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Health and Human Services characterized the negotiations as "highly contentious and protracted." Harvard's Scott, who himself was not involved in the 1987 negotiations, agreed with this description in a recent interview.
Pro-choice advocates hope that Congress will step forward and strike down the 1988 regulations. Earlier this year, Congressmen Wyden of Oregon and John Porter, an Illinois Republican, introduced legislation designed to do just that. Prospects for their bill were enhanced by the House's passage last week of a...
The Council has taken a small but important step in battling Harvard's Institutional Inertia. It shouldn't stop, however, at simply suggesting a shorter exam period--it should also suggest changes in our insanely protracted reading period.
Given the difficulty of Beckett's text, the Cabot production of Waiting for Godot cannot be considered a failure. The play sports a few good moments and some excellent acting, but the sluggish pace and protracted staging prevent this production from being any more than a marginal success.
ReRe Avegno, a real estate agent in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb, remembers exactly when her phone started ringing off the hook: a few days into the allied air campaign, when it became clear that the U.S.-led forces in the gulf had gained the upper hand. As long as...