Word: lingering
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...while FAA head David Hinson and Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena vowed to turn their attention to such hot-button issues as the use of subcontractors for aircraft maintenance. They'll leave industry cheerleading to others. Given that this decision came after the death of 110 people, questions linger about the FAA's capacity to untangle red tape and effect radical change...
...Montreal protocol to curb the production of ozone-killer chemicals. "We first saw a decline in the production of these compounds. Now is the second stage, where we see a decline in the levels in the atmosphere." Lemonick says that chemicals currently present in the upper atmosphere will linger for years, and it remains to be seen if the slight drop can become a steep cut. "Reversing the trend of ozone depletion is like turning around a huge ocean liner," Lemonick says. "You can reverse the engines, but it still takes a while to change the ship's direction...
...years ago, some students worked with visiting artists to build a set of picnic tables that were cut around Cabot's trees, some that fit snugly into the terraced corners of Whitman Hall and others that were free-standing. These tables are places to linger over a meal outside and listen to Hannah's sparkling laugh echo across the Quad; they are surfaces to sketch out thesis notes and to do take-home exams. One table, tipped on its side, becomes a backstop for a pitcher when Julian, our senior tutor, steps up to home plate and slugs a ball...
...Auden's "low, dishonest decade," gave out, the Nazis were spreading out all over Western civilization. And so on. The '40s--the first half of them given over to world war, the second half hardening into cold war and nuclear anxiety--did not make anyone want to linger...
McIntosh also attests to Kaczynski's anti-social habits. "I have a faint memory of trying to get to know him by sitting down with him at dinner. He would smile kind of furtively, then linger for a moment or two and excuse himself and leave," McIntosh says...