Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill calling for such compensation has been dormant in the House since it was introduced four years ago by Rep. Joe De Nucci (D-Newton) on the urging of Northeastern President Kenneth Ryder and Newton Mayor Ted Mann...
...heart," says the priest. "It will be very hard to overcome these feelings." Yet he harbors a peculiar optimism. "The antipathy is very old, but we have lived in peace before. The hatred revives every 20 years or so. There is fighting, and then the hatred becomes dormant again. It will come to a stop some day as it has before...
...ACSR, however, will be losing most of its most liberal members and should be quite dormant this fall as the new people familiarize themselves with the different issues. Once it does get going, though, it is likely to press the Corporation on the statement spokesman Hugh Calkins '45 made that Harvard does not look at any ethical factors (i.e., labor conditions, wages) before it invests in companies. Calkins, after ACSR members attacked that policy, said that the Corporation would investigate the feasibility of pre-screening companies before the University buys shares in them...
...divestiture matter. Though his musings did not cross over the point from which the demonstrators started--the issue is a moral one--he probably satisfied some people that he was listening. And when the current crop of radicals is sucked into the rat race, the issue will probably lie dormant for several more years. At the Law School, student protests prompted a postponement of the implementation of the new grading policy. It sounded like a concession, but a one-year delay in a transient community is more likely to make the issue fade...
...rescue them, and the romance of the profession or the site rarely meets public expectations. The demise of the ICA at Harvard--and the PAL at Brown--links them with the ebb and flow of the sites they studied, all of which were once hives of activity, now dormant. No doubt, in a field that preys upon itself, some future doctoral candidate will write her or his discretion on "the rise and fall of New England's Ivy League contract archaeology labs in the last quarter of the 20th century" as an exercised in studying America's fascination with...