Word: languish
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...History department has similar woes, though for different reasons. Infighting among the department leadership continues to prevent the expansion of its 20th-century American offerings. Despite the overwhelming interest demonstrated by concentrators. The University has ignored this problem and allowed the hiring of Americanists to languish...
...supply request from the field to be answered; the U.S. Army, by comparison, generally responds in 14 to 21 days. Eight procurement officers were suspended from duty in July, accused of favoring a helicopter company in letting bids; they say they were just trying to act with dispatch. Budgets languish in a labyrinth of competing bureaucracies, and once expenditures are approved, the U.N. rarely receives more than 30% of peacekeeping assessments from member states within six months of fielding an operation. When the Yugoslav mission expanded to cover all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the U.N. was under such financial pressure...
Although modern farming in Russia is now almost completely mechanized, broken tractors and combines can languish for weeks or months awaiting spare parts. When the cacophony of the engines is silenced, peasants tune their work to the cadences of the land and return to the ageless methods of their forbearers...
...Inauguration will depend on what he makes of the tentative signs that the U.S. economy might be starting to recover. Most experts are skeptical. Despite gradually falling unemployment and a surprising 2.7% surge in the third-quarter gross domestic product, business and consumer spending is expected to continue to languish next year unless Clinton acts to stimulate growth through public works spending or other programs. "We're just not going to see a very vigorous economy," says Donald Ratajczak, director of economic forecasting at Georgia State University. "After the first quarter next year, if the world is still in recession...
...could a university reasonably argue that excluding feminist studies--or allowing them to languish--makes sense? Good scholarship cannot mean cordoning off certain areas of study, even if budgetary realities sometimes restrict the breadth of an institution's curriculum...