Word: year-long
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...Celtics--Cowens and Havlicek included--have departed over the last few years, Hondo after a year-long farewell party, Cowens with only his personally written epitaph as a goodbye. But Arnold Auerbach remains, and the boundless ability of the oldest Celtic of them all is why the Celtics--infinitely capable of finishing third in the NBA Atlantic Division--might instead garner another green and white flag for their rafter collection...
Deploring the statistic that women still only make 59 cents for every dollar earned by men, Snyder cites 9 to 5's year-long (April 1979-April 1980) action against the First National Bank of Boston as exemplifying the group's hopes for what it can accomplish. The organization won a 10-per-cent pay increase for non-managerial employees, the implementation of job-posting for vacant positions, and the institution of promotion opportunities for women...
...Johnny Rotten and Guy Lombardo who forgot the words to "If I Had a Hammer," an error that by all accounts was quite welcome. In the end, it was almost anti-climactic that Kennedy won his platform battle; his real fight, with the party, with the bitterness of a year-long campaign that led nowhere slowly, was won in the tide of cheers that refused...
...June, despite a year-long series of bureaucratic moves, the Harvard-backed project was little closer to completion than it had been in September...
After about an hour of heated debate, the Faculty overwhelmingly approved the motion, which gives the Committee on Dramatics authority to approve drama courses for credit and recommend non-paying, year-long appointments of lecturers in dramatic arts...