Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus while Mubarak's visit produced no tangible results, it did bring some activity and discussion to the long-dormant peace process. Where that might lead remained to be seen, but U.S. officials were not optimistic. Said a State Department analyst: "We can cajole and we can encourage, but the major players have to get together and decide that they want to talk. So far, we just don't see any evidence that there is a will to do that...
...spill had happened during the warm months of summer, the highly toxic oil would have been devastating to the rivers' ecosystems. But in winter, fish are inactive, many birds have migrated south, and most plants are dormant. "The algae that fish feed on will be wiped out in the short term," says Tom Purcell of the Environmental Protection Agency, "but they will easily be replenished from upstream." Then, too, escaped oil will eventually be broken down by naturally occurring bacteria, although the EPA's Ray Germann admits, "No one can tell how long it will take...
...years, the collection had lain dormant, a silent testament to the lack of interest in ethics business scholars had displayed. But this year, the Business School began considering ethics in professional education much more seriously...
Students have almost continuously boycotted the CRR, which the Faculty created in 1970 to hear infractions of its Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). When the CRR was convened in the spring of 1985, after lying dormant for 10 years, students renewed their calls for disciplinary reform...
...Undergraduate Council, who in 1984 calledfor the abolishment of the CRR, took furtheraction after the dormant CRR was called intoaction to try the cases stemming from the twodivestment protests in the spring of 1985. Lastyear the council issued a report calling on theUniversity to replace both the AdministrativeBoard--which currently hears most disciplinarycases--and the CRR with a single unified judiciarybody...