Word: lingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Reagan Administration struggled to contain these volatile situations, it faced a host of nagging problems on other fronts, domestic as well as foreign. The unresolved budget crisis contributed to fears that the recession would linger and interest rates would stay high, even though the White House had one bit of good news: the consumer price index actually went down in March for the first time in 17 years (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...Kleinfelder's future was her success and popularity as coach of Harvard's lacrosse program. He must have found it difficult to take affirmative steps-relating her from her basketball post-when the women's lacrosse team won an Ivy League championship last year. So he let the problem linger until, finally, the basketball program turned critically...
...cheese-steak stand. This stand was right down the street from the Museum of Modern Art and got away with charging $3.50 for a small sandwich. I used to linger in front of it every so often to hear a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players. "Where is Waldo Park?" someone once asked the tuba player. "This is Waldo Park!" he said, gesturing to the northeast corner of 53rd and Sixth. Later that summer, I ran into the Players on Bleecker St., in Greenwich Village. Someone in the crowd asked the same question. "This is Waldo Park," came...
...long (more than four hours with intermissions); it is often inconsistent; and for embarrassingly long periods it becomes as mawkish as an afternoon soap opera. But what is right about it is absolutely right. Playwright Harvey Fierstein has created characters so vivid and real that they linger in the mind, talking the night away, long after the lights have been turned out and everyone has left off-Broadway's Actors Playhouse...
...effaces and outstretched arms, the beaming man in white reaching out to touch those near by. Then the hand in the air, the gun, the explosion, the shouts of disbelief. Even now, those haunting images of the attempt on Pope John Paul II's life last May linger on. For Josef Hartmann, 60, the horror would evolve into an even stronger, more lasting vision. A civil servant from Mōmlingen, West Germany, on a tour of Italy with his wife Erna, Hartmann was in St. Peter's Square taking pictures of the Pontiff from behind, when shots...