Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such directives do not seem calculated to make a poet beloved, which Larkin was and is. What rescues his work from the slough of depression is the fun he makes of being alive, between parenthetical darknesses, and of himself...
...combined marsh and disposal plant finally opened in 1985, costing $3 million less than Arcata's share of the megasystem's original budget. "We declared victory and withdrew from the war," recalls Hauser. Since wars require monuments, the sanctuary has ponds named Hauser, Allen and Gearheart. A saltwater slough where pelicans and cormorants gather is called Klopp Lake. Mount Trashmore has evolved into a wildflower-rich meadow. Standing by his pond, Allen recalls that first day he and Gearheart tramped through the mud with the idea exploding in their minds. "We flushed a deer out of that spot," he says...
...approved by French health officials in September, and is manufactured under the trade name Mifepristone. Administered within the first five weeks of pregnancy, it causes abortions by blocking the action of the hormone progesterone, thus provoking the uterine lining to slough off the embryo. If taken with a prostaglandin, a substance that makes the uterus contract, RU 486 is about 95% effective. Some 8,000 women have used the pill, which has been available only in hospitals and medical clinics and has no harmful side effects...
Still, New Yorkers weary of the slough of dirt, drugs and despond that is contemporary Manhattan can forgive Morris her borrowed nostalgia. Why, the garbage thrown away in Europe every week wouldn't equal the trash deposited on streets of Manhattan every day. But in those days it really was, in John Cheever's phrase, "a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with river light . . . and when almost everybody wore...
...they withdraw from direct ownership of South African businesses, corporate giants like General Motors and IBM are striving to extricate themselves from a moral and economic slough of despond. Yet their actions have been raising questions in both South Africa and industrial nations around the world about just what the pullouts can hope to achieve. Some critics charge that the companies are merely retreating to the ethical high ground while continuing to operate in South Africa through licensing and sales arrangements...