Word: languishment
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...reform was so long in the making. Three years ago, a proposal by then Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty" returned the proposal to the CUE for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...
...reform took so long in the making. Three years ago, a proposal by then-Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty returned the proposal to the CUF for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...
...baboons in Africa." Pickens calculates that, as a group, officers of the energy giants own just three-tenths of 1% of their firms' shares. (Pickens owns 2.2% of Mesa.) Since they have relatively small investments in their corporations, he argues, oil executives have tended to let stock prices languish. "It infuriates me," he says, "to see them invest their own money in Treasury bills rather than work to improve the value of their companies' stock." According to John S. Herold Inc., an appraiser of oil companies, shares of major energy firms are currently trading at about 45% of what...
...failure to create an agency to check and balance the Department of War. Banneker's noble if somewhat woolly ambition lingered through two World Wars, Korea and Viet Nam: between 1 955 and 1968 alone, 85 different bills in support of a peace academy entered Congress, only to languish there. It was therefore somewhat of a surprise last week when after a long night of haggling over a $297 billion military authorization bill, members of a House and Senate conference approved $16 million toward the creation of a U.S. Institute of Peace...
Listen to E.F. Hutton perhaps. Pennsylvania school districts have enlisted the services of the big broker and other investment consultants to help them boost the value of their tax revenues, which might otherwise languish in non-interest-bearing checking accounts or small savings accounts that today typically earn only 5¼% interest. Since March 1982, a number of districts have been pooling their tax receipts and investing the resulting millions of dollars in the Pennsylvania School District Liquid Asset Fund. The fund buys U.S. and state government securities, Treasury notes and bonds for example, earning interest of about 10%. Result...