Word: protractedness
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"I'm very hopeful that this could be a less protracted negotiation than we had in '92," HUCTW Director William Jaeger said in an interview last week. "It's a healthy enough process to hope we could reach an agreement."
MATEP's decade-long hearings and petition toproduce diesel electric energy caused it to losemoney for a protracted period of time, but theplant may eventually pay for itself, given enoughtime.
The Senate adopted its version of a balanced-budget resolution, but not before exposing a deep and potentially embarrassing rift in Republican ranks over the issue of tax cuts. Nearly half the G.O.P. Senators joined all their Democratic colleagues to defeat a $300 billion set of tax breaks proposed by...
The war was not even about Vietnam. It was a protracted battle of the cold war, fought to block the extension of communist power in Asia. The U.S. commitment to South Vietnam was sealed in 1954 when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went to Geneva for the nine-delegation...
"The most important model for Yale is that thiswas settled by democratic means and not who canoutlast who in a protracted strike," said GordonC. Lafer, a Yale graduate student and unionactivist.