Word: protractedness
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Business news is not very good these days. Though the U.S. is technically in its 28th straight month of growth, big airlines are struggling, the computer industry is in the midst of a protracted shakeout, and drugmakers are in turmoil. Last week even Procter & Gamble, the nation's leading household...
Cyanide gas, he said, is highly toxic and is eventually lethal to humans if breathed for a protracted period of time. The experiment in question, though, involved only solid cyanide, which is poisonous is ingested but gives off no dangerous fumes.
This October the Administration will launch the $179 million National Biological Survey, in which an estimated 950 biologists will, for the first time, conduct a comprehensive inventory of the nation's plants and animals. The experience in the Northwest has taught policy planners to focus not on individual species but...
Phil Munger as Rosencrantz, and Jacob Broder as Guildenstern almost lose control of the fast-moving dialogue. At times the audience cannot keep pace with the bouts of verbal jousting because of inadequate into-national nuance. But they more than compensate with their frenetic motion and lively delivery. Broder especially...
Nor does James maintain the rich, though-provoking analysis throughout. The second half of the novel takes the form of a protracted car chase, fleeing from the forces of darkness, a desperate race against time. The narrative remains gripping and well written at all times, but the basic plot of...