Word: bogging
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...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...
...division." Not since the Suez fiasco of 1956 has Britain taken the lead in any major problems beyond its postcolonial concerns. Now Lord Carrington, backed by Thatcher, has proposed initiatives to neutralize Afghanistan and to bring Europe into Middle East negotiations if the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy bog down. When President Carter called for support from America's Western European allies for sanctions against Iran, Thatcher, who was the first among them to have supported the Olympic boycott, was again quick to rally round-despite her private doubts about the efficacy of sanctions...
...National Museum got there, the Irish government invoked the Official Secrets Act and declared a 25-sq.-mi. zone around Killenaule a protected area. The chalice, paten and strainer, when found, were covered with a beaten bronze bowl; experts presume that monks had deliberately hidden them in the bog, probably to protect them from marauding Irishmen or even Vikings...