Word: lullingly
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Thankfully, the administration has moved closer to the launch of air-strikes against Serb positions. In 1995, similar strikes helped bring about the lull in hostilities that allowed the negotiation of the Dayton Peace Accords. We hope that Milosevic yields to diplomatic pressure, but if military force is necessary to halt the bloodshed...
Following a mid-decade lull, the divestment movement quickened in 1977 after protests at Stanford University spread to other campuses...
...though I'm not sure yet into what kind of coherent picture. The summer after junior year is a strange one, to be sure. The future is nipping impatiently at everyone, questions hovering. Yet somehow July seems to suspend the impendingness of it all. Cambridge lifts itself into a lull of the present--fascinating, at once demanding and infinitely postponable. Nothing becomes more certain; the uncertainties simply become more apparent with time. More apparent, and less troubling, ultimately. Nothing's changed: the same options still lie out on the road in front as were there first-year, second-year, third...
...surprisingly, the wheels came off. Boeing simply lacked the parts and labor to more than double its production as planned. Suppliers in 60 countries--who provide roughly half of Boeing's components--had also scaled back during the lull and couldn't accelerate quickly enough. The Renton line was crippled by "travelers"--jobs that got skipped for lack of parts or other problems and then had to be done out of sequence. That often required ripping out finished work, a costly process that worsens delays and helps make "traveled" jobs five times as expensive as installing parts in the right...
Vigilance on campus imbues us with a sense of mutual responsibility for the University community and society at large. The torch of activism must be kept burning from generation to generation. We are in a lull now, and hope that the classes of 2000 and 2001 soon become uneasy by the current quiet, which is no doubt only the calm before the storm...