Word: protractedness
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It was the most awkwardly protracted job opening of 1989. On the last day of November, after two years of trying unsuccessfully to boost the network's sagging ratings, CBS Entertainment president Kim LeMasters resigned. His departure was not unexpected, but CBS's delay in naming a successor was. For...
While many mutineers surrendered, others scattered throughout the metropolis, taking over three luxury hotels and holding positions against air and ground attacks near the Defense Department headquarters of Camp Aguinaldo. Declared Aquino: "We leave them two choices -- surrender or die." The rebels' reply: "We will fight to the end. Resign...
In section, students usually stick to plot summaries and close readings of the texts. Personal experiences play virtually no role in interpretation. But we still manage to have protracted discussions--employing several dozen "those people"--that usually skirt around the bigger social issues. For example, during a half-hour discussion...
Nujoma, who has waged a protracted armed struggle against South African rule, returned to Namibia in time to register as a voter in the November elections for a constituent assembly, which will prepare the territory for final independence next year. But SWAPO's election director, Hage Geingob, is among those...
First, they won a hotly-contested union election a year ago last May. Then they survived a protracted court battle with Harvard's biggest legal guns to win an endorsement by a National Labor Relations Board judge. Finally, Harvard capitulated and the union, after 17-plus years of organizing, was...