Word: languish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resolved to do nothing less than recreate our history--or "herstory" as some of us called it. And we would do it all at once, immediately. The bathroom wall could not languish graffiti-less; its statements were the connections that we had with each other, the definition of our place here. The hard-fought place that was the source of so much alternating pride and insecurity on those walls...
...break is going on all across the country. After a decade of tough, mandatory sentences and soaring drug arrests, U.S. prisons are overstuffed with inmates. Nearly 628,000 convicted criminals, more than the population of Milwaukee, are bursting the seams of federal and state lockups. An additional 150,000 languish in local jails, sometimes for months, awaiting trial. Some prisons are so crowded that in many states authorities have no choice but to let inmates loose just to accommodate the stream of new arrivals...
...tossed off as too conservative. There can be no forgiveness, no compassion for the criminal who kills. He should face a barren and hopeless life of incarceration. Perhaps the 50 states should, together, build a giant maximum- security prison in the desert. Reinvent Dante's Inferno. Let its inhabitants languish and be forgotten by all Americans. Just don't kill them for me. I don't want to be a murderer. Ted Bundy is dead. Would that he were sitting in an empty cell contemplating his crimes for the next 40 years...
While many worthwhile non-military programs languish in funding obscurity, the military programs have continued to receive more than their fair share of scarce budgetary resources. Current budget deficits exceed $150 million because of these military expenditures. In fact, Reagan has mortgaged the future prosperity of America by tripling the gross national debt. While his subordinates would have us believe that Congress is responsible for these deficits, it is the President who has always submitted unbalanced budgets--and he, therefore, who should accept the blame...
...With these children, you have to push a little harder," a woman named Helen is saying in a fervent voice at that morning's session of foster families. Connecticut has a policy against letting HIV-positive children languish in hospitals or boarding institutions. What it has instead are these 18 foster families, a kind of loose-knit secret society dedicated to giving the children normal lives. Some of them got started as foster parents because they knew the birth mother, or because they came to know the children in their jobs as nurses or social workers. They got together...