Word: impendingness
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Yet despite the impending gubernatorial and senatorial elections, there is scarcely a murmur of political energy on-campus. In an environment of approximately 6400 people, there is no visible tension or overflowing enthusiasm. There are no sit-ins or sit-outs, and very few buttons flyers, or signs.
Of course, Cohen also gives us the obligatory sideshow. Flannery O'Connor has said that she doubted "whether the texture of Southern life" is more inclined to the grotesque. After reading about some of the people Cohen, a Dallas native, meets, I began to doubt O'Connor's wisdom. We...
But no strike in the past 358 years, not one, can claim to be as ludicrous as the current work stoppages bedeviling professional sports. In baseball and hockey, multimillionaire owners have been pleading impending poverty. On the other side, players, some of whom are also multimillionaires, stamp their size 13s...
But "Penny," as Hardaway is oh so inappropriately known, seems downright modest compared with Glenn Robinson, the top pick in this summer's N.B.A. draft. Robinson's agent is seeking a 13-year deal with the Milwaukee Bucks that would pay his client $100 million. Chutzpah? This is the same...
-- Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, responding last week to an impending investigation into gifts he accepted from the poultry industry he regulates.