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• v  last unnecessarily long
• v  proceed for an extended period of time

• drag on
• drag

News & Articles

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• South African miners and unions far apart as wage talks kick off
  By Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African mining unions and gold companies started wage talks on Thursday billed as the toughest since the end of apartheid, with demands for a doubling of basic pay set against collapsing bullion prices and shrinking profit margins. The two-yearly negotiations normally take two months but this year's talks are expected to drag out because of a ...
  July 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News