Word: protractedness
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War has always been good business for defense contractors and arms dealers. But the Vietnam War gave rise to a dismal new enterprise: the MIA industry, which plays on the farfetched notion that there are dozens of American prisoners still being held captive in Southeast Asia or China or the...
On the day of his resignation, Gorbachev was still talking about finding some blend of central planning and market economics that he called a "multi- tier economy" with "an equality of all forms of ownership." No such halfway house exists, and his protracted attempt to find one left the irrational...
In the past decade, tougher laws against drunken drivers have dragged tens of thousands of offenders through protracted court battles and ultimately to jail. Now the police possess a faster and more effective method of keeping drinkers off the roads. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have passed...
Like the protracted budget negotiations of last spring, last night's debate demonstrated that not even traditionally solvent and upscale Cambridge can escape from the economic hard times flattening cities across the country.
Mount Pinatubo, the volcano that covered much of Luzon with dust and ash last month, also proved a kind of mediator in the protracted bargaining over the future of U.S. bases there. The Philippine government had been demanding direct compensation of $400 million annually for a seven-year lease extension...