Word: languish
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...four years since it seized absolute power, the Baath Party has ruthlessly consolidated its rule. One method was the execution of more than 120 potential opponents, some of whom were strung up in Baghdad's Tahrir Square in grisly public hangings. Other enemies of the regime languish in a Baghdad prison that Iraqis ironically refer to as the "Palace of the End." President Ahmed Hassan Bakr, 57, the cautious army general who was installed to arbitrate between feuding Baath factions, has become a figurehead as Vice President Takriti concentrated power in his own hands. Says a Western diplomat...
...name alone for much longer. Once eminent men have settled down somewhere, it is very difficult to lure them away. Either you develop your own young scholars or you dangle out tempting bribes to attract big names from outside. Harvard must choose its course, unless it wishes to languish like an ancient battleship, a glorious but non-functional reminder of another...
WHILE THE VIETNAM negotiations languish, U.S. intelligence officers in Saigon are predicting that the PRG-North Vietnamese offensive which "failed to take place" in mid-February will occur in July and August or in November at the time of the U.S. presidential elections...
...Vietnamese government has ordered its people to build bomb shelters in the event of B-52 raids. During a recent visit to Peking, North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong hinted that he expects that the U.S. will again threaten to use tactical nuclear warheads. Meanwhile, the prisoners of war languish, and Saigon is planning forced relocation of large numbers of civilians...
...administration and financing of pension funds -by companies or unions. The committee intends to hold further hearings this fall, and will have no lack of examples of mismanagement. Last year officials of the United Mine Workers were found in breach of fiduciary trust for allowing millions in assets to languish in a mine-controlled bank. The D.C. Transit Co. invested $2 million owed to its workers' pension fund to finance its own real estate. Javits' bill would compel fund managers to buy insurance against defaults or bankruptcies...