Word: protractedness
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Each fall, the council sets its budget priorities. This year, after a protracted fight, several of us on the council, including popularly elected President Lamelle Rawlins and other student leaders, managed to raise the percentage of the budget going to student groups to 63 percent.
Prosperity, however, dictated its own momentum. The sudden wealth of the country had engendered a pandemic of official corruption, widened income disparities and brought on severe bouts of inflation. In April 1989, students turned public mourning for Hu Yaobang, who had died of cancer, into the protracted Tiananmen protests. One...
SEOUL: Beijing is on the spot now that Hwang Jang Yop, a key member of North Korea?s ruling party and a close confidant to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, has launched an attempt to defect to South Korea via China. In Japan at a North Korean-sponsored international...
As summer turned to fall and Clinton entered into protracted budget negotiations with Gingrich and the G.O.P. leadership, Morris kept predicting that a deal was imminent. By September, he said. Then by Halloween. Morris was back-channeling with then majority whip Trent Lott, but Lott couldn't deliver. Morris wanted...
Messages on Usenet aren't "real-time;" you don't miss out if you're not there every second. Instead, each of these messages are stored for a certain length of time, accessible when you want to read them. Think of it as a protracted conversation with individuals who aren...