Word: protractedness
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Though the economy has stalled and high-end tourists have stayed away during the eight years that Nepal has been racked by a Maoist insurgency, the impoverished Himalayan kingdom could always count on two sources of foreign revenue: aid groups and backpackers. Now they are under threat, too. Earlier this...
It has now become trite to claim that the war against terrorism will be a protracted international effort against those who seek to undermine our way of life through fear. If we are to be successful in this effort, it will not be because the military has rooted out terrorists...
If Mario Monti's resolve to punish Microsoft wavered last week, he showed no sign of it. For more than four arduous years, Europe's antitrust czar and his staff have toiled to build a watertight case against the computer software giant, filing three formal complaints alleging that the company...
Twenty-four-hour universal keycard access (UKA) would be a costless and efficient way to improve safety on campus, yet the administration has resisted it for half of a decade. The fight for keycard access has been a long and protracted one, with bureaucratic and administrative obstacles hindering its progress...
With the perfect mix of evidence and ambiguity, President Bush seems again to have temporarily assuaged concerns about his questionable affiliation with the National Guard in the early 1970s. According to Bush and his cohorts, the president fulfilled his duty with the utmost of diligence—cashing in on...