Word: creep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coast. Efforts to cap the gusher by pumping chemicals and steel balls into the well throttled the flow from 4,500 tons a day to 3,000 tons, but failed to stop it. An oil slick 60 to 70 miles long gradually formed around the well and started to creep northward. Part of the slick was turned back off Tampico, Mexico, by a countercurrent. The rest broke down into large flat pancakes, mousselike patches and thin iridescent streamers...
...called merit selection for at least some judges. Typically, a judicial "selection committee" nominates several names, the Governor picks one, and the judge runs unopposed on a yes-no "retention ballot" after a year or more. The system can produce a higher quality bench, if politics does not creep back in. "The big problem," says Stanford Law Professor Jack Friedenthal, "is the selection of the selectors...
Salim, the protagionist, is an archetypal Naipaul character--East Indian, sallow, passive and alienated. Salim's lethargy reflects his anxiety about the ultimate, senseless violence. As the president's forces creep deeper into the interior, Salim becomes more desperate. He tries twice to rouse himself, via an affair and a flight to London where illusions of a Western civilized arcadia lie. But neither succeeds as a safety-value. Salim renounces all hope and returns to Africa, only to find that the violent abyss has widened...
Divestment totals creep...
...education slowly being eroded under the influence of such a department. One of the major tenets of Bok's philosophy of education in his belief in an almost sacred split between the state and its schools. In Bok's words, a growing body of federal regulations are "beginning to creep very close to those key academic functions which really matter--the size of the student body, the composition of the faculty, etc." Bok says he believes that the Department of Education would provide a "good vantage point" for increasing governmental encroachment in educational policy, even in private institutions. Rep. Erlenborn...