Word: languishment
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...ever since. It is also a symbol of a sport's resurrection: what is popularly called ultimate fighting was chased off TV in 1997 and banned by almost every state because of its no-holds-barred, pound-to-pulp violence. Relegated to outlaw arenas, it appeared doomed to languish forever as "human cockfighting," in the words of its critics...
...said. Some city buses were dispatched to take people without cars to the Superdome to ride out the storm. But there is no indication that buses also ferried people out of the city, beyond the reach of water. In fact, a fleet of several hundred buses was left to languish in a lot that eventually flooded...
...question now facing the Ways and Means version of the tax bill is how the Reagan Administration will react. Unless the President decides to push it through Congress, the proposal will languish as legislators deal with other pressing issues like the budget and trade deficits. The White House has so far postponed taking a stand on it. Reporters inquired about the President's attitude toward the plan last week, when he appeared for a holiday photo session with a 55-Ib. gobbler named Wilfred. Quipped Reagan: "The only questions I will take today are about the turkey...
...Watch Group had been imprisoned, forced to emigrate or exiled within the Soviet Union. The remaining three reluctantly disbanded the organization, admitting, "The group cannot fulfill its duties." The New York City-based Helsinki Watch Committee this month cited estimates that as many as 10,000 political prisoners still languish in Soviet jails and labor camps...
...explained to your reporter that I thought Budget Director Stockman undercut his own budgets by taking extreme positions that lacked credibility in the Congress and by letting it be known privately that he thought tax increases were the answer to the deficit. Congress responded by letting budget cuts languish while waiting for the Administration to propose another tax increase. Since 1982 there have been four legislated tax increases (the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, known as TEFRA, which repealed much of the business tax cut of the previous year; the gasoline tax; the 1983 Social Security amendments...