Word: defunction
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...SafeRide program, which is now in its fourth year, was created after the Boston chapter of the national Sober Ride program became defunct...
...there's nothing he can do to keep the lights on. The mall's operators had been paying day-to-day expenses with financing obtained through a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, the now defunct American investment bank. After Lehman's dramatic collapse in mid-September, the mall lost its funding source, couldn't pay operating expenses and was forced to liquidate. Tenants must be out within days. They have been told they will not be getting their deposits back. Kamoshida can't get over the feeling of being utterly blindsided. "I had no idea that Lehman Brothers had anything...
...accessible album, as well as her 1969 debut album “It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best.” While once the prized secret possession of Formers—that is, former writers at now-defunct music magazines, former proprietors of coffee shops that keeled over and died as soon as disco came about—the aforementioned coterie of contemporary musicians are more than indicative of not only Dalton’s relevance, but also the need to know about...
...assign a single cause to the behavior of stock markets - which are aggregations of thousands of companies - is at best difficult and at worst foolish. Nonetheless, there were events that were hard to ignore. Insurance contracts tied to the debt of the now defunct Lehman Brothers were finally settled up, and - after much breath-holding - no other firms unraveled. In Washington, black SUVs and town cars of the G-7's central bankers and Treasury officials rolled into town, bringing with them the hope that the people with the power to fix things - assuming there are such people - will collectively...
...Fans of the New York Yankees, the most successful professional sports franchise in history, no doubt will remember warmly their defunct Stadium—the site of countless fond memories from childhood, historic home runs and no-hitters, some of the finest teams and greatest players in the sport’s century of existence...