Word: protractedness
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While sit-ins and blockades at campuses across the country have been met with arrests--and occasionally with negotiation and compromise--Harvard has ignored blockades, sit-ins and shantytowns and has responded after the fact with protracted disciplinary actions of questionable fairness and legitimacy. The decision to arrest divestment activists...
The hijacking of Flight 73 was by no means the most protracted or lethal of the terrorist attacks that have plagued the world's airlines for more than 15 years. Over the long term, it will probably be less vividly remembered than last year's hijacking of TWA Flight 847...
Laymen tend to envision a future world war as instant Armageddon. Clancy knows better. Instead of staging yet another atomic holocaust, he imagines a scenario that accounts for much U.S. defense spending: a protracted showdown arising from a conventional Soviet attack on NATO. Although each side briefly contemplates "going nuclear...
LeRoy did spend several hundred thousand dollars on architectural plans, legal fees and so on, but there had to be protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that...
The war between Iran and Iraq has dragged on for 5 1/2 years, claimed an estimated 350,000 to 400,000 lives, and caused badly frayed nerves in the region. Two months ago, thousands of Iranian troops stormed across the Shatt al Arab, the long-disputed waterway that lies between...