Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kidder Peabody & Co.: "It is Gulliver's Travels retold for the 1980s. The Lilliputians, like the Government, controlled a big giant. But one at a time, the strings began to fall away. Now we are confronted by this company with tremendous strength and resources that has been dormant for years and has at last broken free...
Carni says that often the seeds for an eating disorder may be lying dormant in a student who arrives at college and then learns a type of food abuse. "Some girls come to college totally unequipped to deal with sharing a bedroom with a roommate and her boyfriend, and for solace they turn to food," she says. "In large dorms it is extremely easy to learn how to vomit or use laxatives because you see people around you doing...
Several student CHUL members said yesterday it "seemed strange" to be meeting after the group had been dormant nearly all semester, and Epps said it was "hard to predict" what effect the layoff would have on student interest in the group...
Meanwhile, the Israelis last week revived a dormant but still explosive issue. Israeli Defense Minister Sharon charged that P.L.O. units in southern Lebanon were rapidly building up their artillery and rocket arsenals in defiance of a July cease-fire agreement. He also complained of the continuing presence there of Syrian antiaircraft missiles. Accusing the U.S. and Europe of ignoring the problem while they flirted with the Fahd plan, Sharon warned that if "political means" failed to get results, "Israel will have to act." As the search for peace continued, so did the threat of war. - By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported...
Caught in the dragnet of the Brink's investigation were members of four supposedly dormant or little-known radical organizations. A brief guide to those underground groups...