Word: looming
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...month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem to loom larger than the cold war specter of Communism...
Also ahead of the Crimson are Michigan State, B.U., and B.C. Tonight's game, however, will not loom significantly in the standings unless an upset takes place...
Doing Penance. Finally, Paul's anger and rebelliousness, his frustrated pride, seem to be directly distilled from Brando's career during the 1960s, which now in retrospect loom as his purgatory years. The world of show business began doing penance for having idolized him by trying to cut him down to size. He was criticized for intellectual pretension as well as for being too primitive; he was accused of being too mannered and self-indulgent as an actor as well as of sleepwalking through parts just for the money; he was berated for not returning to the stage...
Further questions loom in the future. What would happen, for example, if a hideously ugly project did no physical harm to the environment? Or what if a developer candidly admitted that his project would harm the environment, but the local authorities approved it anyway? Experts already are talking of three or four "generations" of suits and struggles over this most basic environmental issue, the use of the land...
Amherst squash conch Ed Serues whose team suffered a 9-0 trouncing from Harvard last Wednesday, claimed after the loss that Penn and Navy are possibly stronger squads which loom to dethrone the nationally top-ranked Crimson later this season...