Word: defunction
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Five hockey players-two Canadians, two Austrians and an Italian-were dismissed on the eve of the competition for having had brief encounters with the National Hockey League. One of the Austrians not expelled was Richard Cunningham, 32, veteran of more than 300 games in the defunct World Hockey Association. On the computer terminals in the press room, Cunningham's occupation is listed as "philosopher...
...Hambrecht, a Princeton graduate who grew up on Long Island, N.Y., was a discontented broker working in the San Francisco office of Francis I. du Pont & Co., a now defunct New York City investment firm. One evening he stopped for a drink at the Kona Kai Club in San Diego with George Quist, a friend who was a venture-capital specialist for Bank of America. After commiserating a while over the excessive caution of big companies and consuming two bottles of wine, Hambrecht and Quist decided to launch their own venture-capital fund...
From its founding, TIME has treated the press itself as newsworthy. The Press section appeared in the magazine's first issue, in 1923, with a story on the now defunct New York World. To date, TIME has run 56 cover stories on the press, profiling a varied range of figures, including Walter Lippmann (1931,1937), William R. Hearst Sr. (1927,1933,1939), Drew Pearson (1948), Ernie Pyle (1944), William F. Buckley Jr. (1967), Arthur Sulzberger (1977) and Dan Rather...
Among the other players, Catherine Colinvaux as an "idiot" successfully steals the show without uttering a line. Her wide-eyed vacant expressions and spastic contortions, reminiscent of Gilda Radner's depiction of a mentally disturbed child on the defunct "old" Saturday Night Live, graciously upstage the sorry plot unfolding around...
With the opening this week of its new $280.000 clinical laboratory, located on the fourth floor of its Holyoke Center building. UHS has finished the first in a series of projects that will include converting the now defunct lab into a surgical suite, rearranging the walk-in clinic installing a computer system, and upgrading Stillman Infirmary and other facilities, said Associate Director for Administration and Finance Josephus Long...