Word: languishes
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...much. Hesselink says Seaman faced a mini-revolt in 1995-96 when some colleagues insisted that she see patients only during normal working hours or risk being sent home on the next plane. An MSF bureaucrat who replaced Hesselink as MSF's country director briefly banished Seaman to languish in Nairobi, before the bureaucrat was herself recalled to Holland. McHarg, Seaman's current boss, appreciates her special talents but also sees the need to go beyond emergency medicine. "If we pull out of Sudan tomorrow," she says, "we'd like to know that we are leaving something that lasts...
...chief David Jackson. "Intel has made the overseas market its number one target, with half their sales coming from outside the United States." The thinking behind the export drive is that since most foreign customers are starting from scratch rather than buying upgrades, why leave yesterday's models to languish on American shelves when they can be flogged overseas...
...decide a late-term abortion is medically necessary. But with Clinton now in a commanding position, Republicans must decide whether to send the bill to the White House as is, or incorporate some of the changes the President has demanded. Karen Tumulty reports that the measure most likely will languish before returning to center stage. "The same thing is going to happen as last year -- they're not going to get anywhere. They can try to renegotiate the bill and come up with some new version of it, and they may do that. But right now, everyone is just sick...
From her second-floor room in Thayer Hall, Brooke M. Ellison '00 looks out over the Old Yard. On most days, fellow first-years toss around frisbees or languish amidst the trees, trying to hide from Indian summer's last warm rays...
More than 40 million Americans go camping every year, and apparently many of them are redefining their idea of rugged outdoorsmanship. Nowadays campers can languish in multiroom tents, cuddle up in adjustable-temperature sleeping bags, roast game hens in "outback ovens." "People don't want to go outdoors and get dirty and wet," explains Tom Huggler, author of The Camper's and Backpacker's Bible. "They want to be safe and comfortable, and they want a smooth experience." And they are willing to pay for it. According to the National Sporting Goods Association, a trade group, sales of camping...