Word: gaspeing
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...last gasp came in October...
...leading counterblasting outfits, GASP (for Group Against Smokers' Pollution) and ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), as well as such organizations as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, have had some impressive successes: largely as the result of their campaigns, 31 states and scores of cities in the U.S. have passed a wide range of laws that prohibit smoking in places as varied as elevators, museums, hospitals, theaters, stores, buses and subways. Now, however, the antismokers seem bent on controlling all public "breathing space." In offices and waiting rooms, desk plaques admonish...
...Last Gasp. The DeCrow group, which took 25 of 34 NOW offices in the October elections, regards Womansurge as a splinter faction of aging professional women willing to accept token advances and avoid new issues. "It's the last gasp of a very small group with a condescending view of what feminism is like," says DeCrow. "If you mention you want to change the behavior of men or if you mention gay rights, they're frightened away...
FROM THE MOOD-SETTING sinuousness of the prefatory dancer to the audience's final cathartic gasp, No Place to be Somebody captivates. H-R Black C.A.S.T. has established in its short existence a tradition of loose and engaging productions which feed on audience interaction and force spectators into a vital consideration of the black person's experience in America...
Building 36 would be virtually indistinguishable from the other ramshackle monstrosities except for one hitch--it represents Harvard's last gasp in the fight to keep the whole Kennedy Library complex from falling into the lap of the University of Massachusetts in Boston...