Word: protractedness
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That's right--Walsh has refused to resign from his post on the council after being found guilty of enough crimes to put him in prison for two lifetimes. Apparently, he believes that he can overturn all 41 convictions and the results of a four-year federal investigation. Perhaps another...
It was Palm Sunday, and outside the cathedral in Saigon a girl of nine or 10 was selling postcards. These children with their souvenir postcards are everywhere now in the South, tugging at sleeves, beseeching with practiced but adorable smiles, the authorities having become gradually reconciled to such small-scale...
The deal also spells the almost certain end of the Paramount career of Martin Davis, who has run the corporation since 1983 but was relegated to the role of bystander in the protracted struggle. There will be no room for Davis in the merged company, which will be headed by...
Pudgy, stringy-haired, constantly out of breath, Murphy has deteriorated & since he was incarcerated in March 1993. A local attorney has filed suit against the Bureau of Prisons seeking his release, but Murphy doesn't really have time for a protracted legal battle. When he arrived at Rochester, he says...
For a man who was watching two years' work go down the drain in about 48 hours, Ira Magaziner, the architect of Bill Clinton's health-care reform plan, had a strangely delighted air at the White House senior staff meeting last Thursday morning. The afternoon before, the Business Roundtable...