Word: languishes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member board of directors, Griffiths' accomplishments eventually counted for little when weighed against his shortcomings as a manager of people. Instead of grooming his successor, a task that any corporate head must unavoidably confront as retirement approaches, Griffiths permitted the matter to languish unresolved. The result was a power vacuum that was soon filled by cabals of jockeying, maneuvering subordinates. Lamented one source close to the firm last week: "If you put two people together at this company, you will have three factions...
Both the American public and Congress seem increasingly in the mood to back a substantial overhaul of the agency. There is a widespread perception that despite its lamentable excesses in the past, the CIA cannot be permitted to languish, that its mission is vital to U.S. security. Says Barry Goldwater, the new chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee: "I think the CIA is going to find a very cordial reception here. It's difficult to discover any opposition to intelligence. We've learned...
...main role in developing future energy sources. "I would get the Government out of the energy industry and turn oilmen loose in the marketplace," Reagan told campaign rallies. The new Administration, therefore, expects to emphasize production by decontrolling natural gas prices before 1985, when controls are due to languish anyway, and to maintain the timetable set up by the Carter Administration for phasing out oil price regulations by the fall of 1981. Reagan has also indicated that he would open up federal wilderness areas of Alaska and more offshore land for exploration and drilling...
...city will be bare then - not like now, when autumn continues to languish on the trees, and Lafayette Square is still bright yellow with chrysanthemums Come January the city will be humming again, and this present quiescence for gotten. Miserable normality will be restored, and the country will glower at it creation...
Aquino, 48, probably would have won the 1973 election in the Philippines--had it been held. Instead, he continued to languish in jail, until Marcos finally let him out of the country this summer to undergo a triple bypass operation in the United States. He has now landed at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), where he has spent time convalescing, pondering his country's future and "meeting all the people who wrote the books" he read during his lengthy incarceration...