Word: protractedness
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Douglas R. Hofstadter, an assistant professor of computer science at Indiana University and Pulitzer-prizewinning author (Gödel, Escher, Bach), writes in the March issue of Scientific American: "If you are destined to solve the unscrambling problem at all, it will take you somewhere between five hours and a...
The University last week finally won a complete victory in the protracted, bitter fight when the two tenants remaining in the building--Sherwin Cooper and Carol Nelson--both decided to move out voluntarily.
The government's decision to grant Baranczak a passport should bring to an end more than three years of protracted, complex and often frustrating efforts to secure his arrival here.
Rumors are flying around N'Djamena to the effect that Vice President Wadal Abdelkader Kamougue, the present leader of Chad's comparatively prosperous south with its sizable Christian minority, is being encouraged by France to secede from the arid, impoverished northern region. At the same time, Habré...
A Soviet invasion remains a definite possibility, though the chances of it seem to have diminished a little. Until recently the Soviet forces were on a 48-hour alert. That has been changed to 72 hours. The Soviets would much prefer that Kania solve his own problem. They do not...