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For the recommendations languishing, see Charles Allen interview (Sept.
The bi-partisan McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill, which would ban unregulated "soft money" donations, and which has been languishing in the Senate for quite a while, got a new lease on life Tuesday when President Clinton threatened in a letter to Majority Leader Trent Lott to force Congress to stay in session to vote on the measure.
British design historian Clarke delivers a "heavily academic cultural critique of Tupperware" (Rachel Hartigan, the Washington Post ), but all the critics can talk about is the story of how Brownie Wise, a struggling single mother, turned the languishing line of plastic containers into a booming success via one simple idea: the Tupperware Party.
What is hypocritical is the way we've got all these Cuban refugees languishing in U.S. prisons, without any rights whatsoever to a speedy trial, just because they came here in a less dramatic fashion than did young Elian.
2 On the other hand, the retail “wagon” should not be too full, since stocking retail shelves with unpopular items also results in excess costs—the cost of capital tied up in unwanted goods, the opportunity cost of the space that could be used for products that customers would buy if present, and, ultimately, lost margin when retailers must resort to price markdowns or product disposal to clear languishing items from their shelves.