Word: listless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move three more missions to his "accomplished" column. In his acceptance speech, he played the stature card, reminding Americans that on his watch the Berlin Wall fell, communism crumbled and Kuwait was liberated. After wrangling for weeks with advisers over how to reconcile his respectable record abroad with his listless performance at home, Bush reduced his pitch to two sentences: "This election is about change. The question is, Who do you trust to make change work for you?" Translation: "I'm not perfect, but the other guy's worse...
...drawbacks soon became apparent. In addition to producing severe side effects, the drugs leave patients listless and indifferent. In short, while they alleviate the so-called positive symptoms of schizophrenia -- the voices and the delusions -- they do not touch the negative symptoms of apathy and social withdrawal. Furthermore, they provide this limited sort of recovery for just 40% of patients; 30% have flare-ups of madness and must be periodically hospitalized, while the remaining 30% are considered to be "treatment resistant" and are largely confined to mental institutions...
...rumor last month that Baker would soon return as chief of staff was started by Mosbacher and friends, who think it is Sam Skinner's White House, not the campaign, that needs fixing. White House officials fired back last week, predicting Baker would return -- but only to give the listless campaign a boost...
...November 1982, Aliza, Begin's wife of 43 years, died. In the months that followed, his aides noticed that he appeared listless, almost indifferent to events. On Aug. 28, 1983, he announced that he would resign. Then he went into almost complete seclusion...
...Kremlin, once the seat and symbol of absolute power, now has the air of a museum, a sprawling, drafty memento mori of the old regime. The long corridors are eerily silent; the guards seem listless. The nameplates on most doors have been removed. Many rooms are not just empty; they seem abandoned. Boris Yeltsin has moved in, but a number of his advisers have stayed behind at the Russian Parliament to massage legislators who are restless -- if not rebellious -- over the price their constituents are paying for reform...