Word: sapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promotional material for the greatly publicized Ghost calls the movie startling. Startling maybe if you've never seen sap running from the trees in springtime. The subtitle for the movie is "Believe," but you're more likely to believe peace breaking out in the Middle East than most of this peripatetic plot...
...slim volume, adapted from a series of lectures by Bok at Duke University in 1988, presents the strong argument that universities have failed to fulfill their full potential in "helping America surmount the obstacles that sap our economic strength and blight the lives of millions of our people...
...sure, Bok in several instances gives well-reasoned and persuasive explanations of some of his pet causes. He reiterates his oft-repeated call for increased internationalization of universities and their student bodies, refuting conservative know-nothings who have argued that this would sap American economic strength...
...part of an effort by government to--in a sense--put the burden for enforcing various kinds of legal sanctions on the institutions," says Irvine. "You've added another layer of administrative burden, and that can sap resources that might have been used...in more positive ways...
...faltering yen and a plunging Tokyo stock market threaten to choke the country's economy and sap its confidence. -- Brazil learns to live without cash...