Word: festers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they don't call, then problems will fester, and I won't be able to take care of them," Rosenthal says. "I want to be made aware...
...exclude homosexuals from the military outside of the theoretical possibility that some homophobic people may be uncomfortable. It embarrasses me that government policy could be predicated on shallow and empty prejudices. We have worked far too hard to eradicate intolerance to allow such an insidious form of discrimination to fester within our country...
Through it all, public suspicion will continue to fester. "Yeltsin may win honestly," says Paul Goble, an assistant director at Radio Free Europe, "but nobody in Russia is going to believe it." Naturally, Russians have already reduced the outcome to a joke: Yeltsin is asked what will happen if he wins the election. He replies, "Russia will have a new President." And if he loses? Yeltsin answers, "Then you will have your old President." New or old, the President may have revived his campaign, but he has not restored much respect for himself or the office he holds...
...past, both countries put aside their differences for the sake of upholding their informal alliance against the Soviet Union. Now, with the Soviet threat gone, the disagreements can fester. Making matters even worse is the struggle under way over who will succeed Deng Xiaoping. "To appear weak before the U.S. puts potential successors in a vulnerable position," says Robert Ross, a visiting professor at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing. Testifying before Congress last week, Henry Kissinger, the advance man for President Nixon's opening to China, said, "Sino-American relations are in free fall." For a good indication...
...fiction should be a genteel escape from the encroaching horrors of contemporary life rather than a blueprint for more of the same. The weakness of this case is that it denies narrative art its taproot into the muck and mire of the subconscious; it forgets that private nightmares will fester in solitary confinement instead of finding cathartic company in the public community of stories...