Word: languish
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...Anthony Dowell, Fernando Bujones and Baryshnikov, who will also dance). But its stagings of Swan Lake and Giselle show their age, and newer productions like Sleeping Beauty and Raymonda have been artistic disappointments. As the management has grown older, young dancers have been left without guidance, to develop or languish on their...
...with the U.N. plan to grant independence to Namibia. But the Administration's attempt, with British help, to bring all parties together to settle the civil war in Rhodesia seems on the verge of collapsing. The Administration's next move might well be to let the problem languish for a while in the U.N.-to let "the dust settle," says Assistant Secretary of State Richard Moose...
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. China lacks the skilled manpower to handle any sudden influx of high-technology industry. Reason: during the Cultural Revolution, Maoist educators let universities and research institutes languish and emphasized for the masses grassroots schools that combined limited technical training with heavy doses of ideology...
...face, but he was not cracking. Indeed, he appeared to be spurred on by anger over what he feels was the deception and gross negligence of former friends and officials, like Hoveida, on whom he counted to help build his dream of a modern nation. These men should not languish in comfort and luxury, supporters say, while he lives through the most perilous time of his reign...
...expect Frank Navarro to languish on the shores of Princeton's Lake Carnegie for long, however. Whether on the highway-lined banks of the Harlem or alongside the meandering Wabash, Frank Navarro has proved himself an able pilot on perilous waters...