Word: sinking
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...want to strike a middle ground between coddling the freshmen and leaving them bereft," Moses says. "Lots of freshmen I have known think of themselves as being left to sink or swim. Freshmen have been so well-served by their senior advisors without knowing it; there is no way of communicating it to them. Freshmen everywhere complain...
Alternatively, Iraq might sink into a long-running, multisided civil war, like Lebanon -- and "Lebanon" now rivals "Vietnam" as a one-word summation of the Administration's worst nightmares. The Kurds and Shi'ites, says a Bush adviser, were "fighting the Sunnis for years before we got there, and they'll continue killing each other long after we've gone." U.S. forces, moreover, might not be able to stay out of such a bloody quagmire. Having helped depose Saddam, Washington might be obliged to get involved in selecting and propping up a successor government. But the U.S., observes an Administration...
...moot, however, if the army decides to take matters into its own hands. The spate of presidential resignations last week left Yugoslavia in confusion over just what civilian authority ultimately commands the military. If the answer turns out to be Milosevic and the army leaders, the country could sink into an even grimmer cycle of violence...
...before the crude begins to separate. Unfortunately, by the time a U.S. oil-spill assessment team arrived on the scene, the more volatile components of the oil had evaporated, leaving heavier chemicals that were whipped by waves into a thick water-oil "mousse" or turned into tar balls, which sink...
...vigorous and dapper widower, a catch for the golden girls of West Palm Beach, Fla. He spent part of his winters there. The rest of the year he lived in a modest Elizabeth, N.J., apartment where he washed his own socks and underwear in the bathroom sink rather than use the coin-operated laundry in the basement...