Word: morass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman of the financial consulting firm Whittle & Hanks: "Banking is going into the free-enterprise system out of a protected environment, and that is bound to shake up a whole lot of things." The optimists believe that the financial industry will fight its way out of today's morass and become stronger than ever...
...challenge before us today: how to get India into the 20th century." He speaks of the need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism and the country's age-old social inequities. "We must get the poor and the weak of India out of their rut, out of the morass they are stuck in," he said recently. Most political experts see him as a pragmatist, like his late brother, who favors a somewhat larger place for private enterprise within socialist India than did his mother...
...Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Antonio, and at gatherings of AIDS-related groups in New York City and San Francisco, the new developments were the major topic of discussion. Finally, it appears, a few facts are emerging from the morass of fear and confusion...
...widely should a group publicize its meetings and how far in advance? Who should cover the costs of publicity or procuring a larger auditorium? Should members at least be entitled to preferred seating? Such questions may not be impossible to answer, but they indicate the type of regulatory morass that the University would enter if it undertook to fix detailed rules to govern exactly how each student group conduct its meetings...
Those qualities have helped Gregorian prevail over what once seemed a nearly hopeless financial morass. When he arrived, the library was balancing its budget not only by cutting back services but by eating into its $80 million endowment. Then Gregorian began stating his case to potential givers. It was both blunt and plain: the library is necessary and therefore it should be supported. "I have never relied on the guilt or vanity of donors," explains Gregorian. "Charity you give out of pity. Philanthropy is for a higher cause...