Word: unread
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reform fatigue leads Western countries to despair for the U.N., a number of critics prescribe benign neglect for a creature swollen with rhetoric, unread paperwork and merely stray achievements on the ground. Many agencies are financed in large part by voluntary funds; governments could favor worthwhile functions and let the rest wither away. Parsons' verdict: "Well, let it become irrelevant if it won't reform itself. Don't let's waste too much time and the energy of clever...
...absolutely unread," Bradlee said...
...grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...
...wanderer, searching for a climate his bleeding lungs could tolerate. "McLynn tells his story with grace and skill," says TIME critic John Skow. "Only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...
...their Medicaid dollars -- a legal interpretation other Administration lawyers dispute. As procedure dictates, a draft directive was faxed to the offices of White House Cabinet Secretary Christine Varney and domestic policy chief Carol Rasco. Almost everyone, including the President, had left for Christmas vacation, and the proposed order sat unread. "In fact," says a White House aide, "Carol never got it at all." Not so, counters an HHS official, "and we've got the fax receipts to prove it." No matter. Everyone knew what was up on Christmas Day, when the HHS proposal was the lead story in the Washington...