Word: languish
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...Orleans prison constituted cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the convict population cut from 1,200 to 450; it is still almost double that. Federal courts in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have acted similarly, with similar results. Convicts for whom there is no room in state prisons languish in overcrowded county jails. A group of county sheriffs in Georgia has threatened to go to federal court because the 700 prisonbound convicts in their jails are "a threat to their communities...
...resettling all the refugees. First it was July 1, then Aug. 1-and now Nov. 1. Skeptics doubt that the program can be completed before next spring. About 48,000 refugees-more than one-third of the total-have been "out-processed" to homes. Meanwhile, 62,000 still languish in four refugee camps in the U.S., and 18,000 have not yet left way stations on Guam and Wake Island...
...Ford thus gave his support to operations that helped destroy Latin America's oldest democracy. The junta that overthrew the popularly-elected Allende government almost exactly one year ago now rules Chile with an iron fist. Thousands were killed in the aftermath of the coup, and uncounted political prisoners languish in cramped cells, where they are tortured until they "confess." The extensive slums on the edges of Santiago are subject to brutal purges by government troops. The press and other media are rigorously censored, and military leader Gen. Augustus Pinochet says that it may be decades before Chile is "ready...
...everything they're worth, which isn't more than a few idiosyncrasies. And the plot's chaotic entanglements are as predictable as the first few tricky moves of a cat's cradle. The rivals, Bob Acres and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, vie for the hand of lovely Lydia Languish, who remains cloistered under the guardianship of her old-maid aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. Disguised as Ensign Beverly, Captain Absolute has already secretly won Lydia's favor, but when his father, Anthony Absolute arranges his marriage to Lydia using his real title, Lydia rebuffs...
...that control of even small blocks of stock "by a single or few like-minded financial institutions provides them with disproportionately large powers." Because institutional investors are attracted to the largest companies, the few men who control block purchases and sales often allow the stocks of smaller firms to languish. This has led to a two-tier stock market in which sound small and medium-sized corporations often cannot raise needed equity capital...