Word: fester
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...kind of lost my faith in the faculty,because they didn't make the decisions along theline and they let this thing fester until it gotto the point where you had to have real surgery,"Pusey said in a recent interview...
...budget speech on Thursday night, Bush called on Congress to approve his proposal within 45 days. "We must not let this situation fester," he said. "Any plan to refinance the system must be accompanied by major reform." For the most part, his proposal found bipartisan support. Said Iowa Republican Jim Leach, a member of the House Banking Committee: "In his first inning, Bush has stepped up and hit a home run." Another member of the committee, New York Democrat Charles Schumer, said that Bush deserves "a heck of a lot of credit for bellying up to the bar and putting...
...economic situation fester too long, and eventually there are no good policy choices. That was a favorite saying of the late Arthur Burns when he piloted the Federal Reserve Board through the inflation-ridden 1970s, and it applies with equal force to the dilemmas facing Government policymakers in the wake of the stock market's Crash of '87. A babble of conflicting voices warns of peril in almost any course the economic managers might take to reduce the budget and trade deficits and force the country to live within its means. And those warnings cannot be lightly dismissed. There...
Marius is correct that there is a problem, and the University as a whole may be largely responsible. But to absolve the Expos program entirely may just let the germ of the problem fester...
Even as Roh and Kim chatted amiably last week, the optimistic mood was disrupted by labor violence. More than 700 disputes continue to fester following a rash of strikes that first broke out in July. At a Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, where walkouts resumed after wage talks collapsed, a striker died and three others were seriously injured when a driver, whom they had beaten, got back into his truck and ran them over. Some 13,000 strikers occupied the yard, smashing windows, setting fire to cars and battling riot police. Late in the week police raided Hyundai...