Word: languishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...home prices in Santa Clara County. From March 1985 to March 1990, the median price of homes zoomed from $125,000 to $235,000. Real estate appreciation ran at 3% a month, and most listings attracted multiple offers within 72 hours. Today 8,700 homes (median price: $226,500) languish on the market. "In Santa Clara County, it's a sacred thing: property values go up," says San Jose Realtor John Pinto, a Brooklyn native who came to the Valley believing it was the best place in the U.S. to live. He stops to wave at the lone pedestrian...
...hard, the far-right members of his ruling coalition will revolt. "My party is poised to topple the government if it comes to that," says Elyakim Ha'etzni, a member of the extremist Tehiya Party and a West Bank settler. If that happens, the peace process would languish while Israel prepared for new elections, which could well produce an even more hard-line government...
...SHELTERING SKY. Bernardo Bertolucci has made a swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film from Paul Bowles' novel of a married couple on an existential quest for romantic catastrophe in North Africa. Debra Winger and John Malkovich powerfully portray the forlorn souls who languish under the desert's pitiless grandeur...
...Jordan and Iraq. Largely from India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh, these refugees once worked in Kuwait at jobs the natives disdained: as drivers, waiters and maids. Though never wealthy, they earned good wages and had become accustomed to the air-conditioned placidity of their adopted country. Today they languish in three sprawling, filthy tent cities, called Shaalan One, Two and Three, erected in a sweltering moonscape infested with snakes and scorpions. At least 10 refugees, including two babies, have already died of dehydration and exposure. Says Xavier Emmanuelli, president of the French relief organization Doctors Without Borders: "These people...
...Corps of Engineers can uproot some of their canals and dams that have routed water to commercial use. It is a new experience for the Army engineers, who rarely undo their majestic alterations of Mother Nature. But suddenly the thirsty residents of Miami realize that if the Everglades aquifers languish, so does the city. Here again, some good wet weather would help. With more than half the U.S. population jammed into strips 50 miles wide on the coasts and around the Great Lakes, even small changes in weather produce noticeable stress...