Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, Dartmouth was expected to languish in the second division, but quarterback Buddy Teevens led his offense to a league-high 170 points as the Big Green captured the Ivy crown. In addition, Teevens led the league in passing and was second in total offense to Harvard's long-lost Larry Brown. Teevens is gone this year, but his favorite target, Dave Shula returns at split end, where he caught a league-leading 39 passes in 1978. However, getting the ball to Shula may be a problem. Larry Mergerum, who backed up Tevens last year, saw only three quarters...
...Speedy trial laws. Delay in the criminal courts means that many defendants languish in jail, whether or not they are guilty...
...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...