Word: drawn-out
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...high time for the airlines to do something to fill their half-empty seats, to meet fierce price competition from nonscheduled charter airlines and to pass on to the passenger some of the new jumbo jets' tremendous economies of scale. But as the drawn-out negotiations last summer in Montreal showed, few airline managements could agree on what should be done. Now they may have little choice but to follow Lufthansa's lead...
...sound of applause came from the open windows of the second-floor room where the Big Four ambassadors-from the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union-had been negotiating for nearly 14 hours. The applause was abundantly justified; the ambassadors had reached a pivotal agreement in the drawn-out process of ending a quarter-century of East-West conflict over the city...
...bold novel that, all things considered, is surprisingly successful. Doctorow's biggest gamble was sinking his energies into the Rosenberg case in the first place. Not that successful fiction cannot spring from old newspapers, as Dostoevsky and Dreiser both demonstrated. But the Rosenberg trial was a kind of drawn-out, draining and rather grisly national ordeal...
...this week, when the military procurement bill reaches the House floor. F. Edward Hébert, Armed Services Committee chairman, has promised to offer amendments to the bill as recommended by a forthcoming Pentagon report on the F14. The report will almost certainly urge a drawn-out production schedule, providing fewer planes than the Navy would like and at higher costs than originally projected. Whether Hébert and Packard will abide by Grumman's final cost estimates is still open to question. If no deal can be worked out, says Grumman's Evans, "we should turn...
...most capitals of Asia, where the long view prevails, Laos is regarded as a brief episode in a long, drawn-out struggle, in which the U.S. is, in the G.I. vernacular, "short" and getting shorter all the time. Over the past year or two, in fact, a new, calmer view of the whole Indochina war has spread through Asia, in part the result of a reassessment in the light of U.S. withdrawal. Many sophisticated Asians, including the leaders of some of the nations once regarded as dominoes, are now privately convinced that Hanoi will prevail, and have come...