Word: defunction
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...organization has also worked in concert with other Black groups recently. On the divestiture issue, the BSA has joined forces with a coalition of groups that includes the Harvard African Students Association, which is predominately Black. Defunct for nearly two years, the groups has worked to promote an understanding of African politics and culture...
Forming Hand to Mouth was "just a little Harvard fling," says Patell, but it did give rise to yet another soon-to-be-defunct group. The Girl Next Door...
...joined the undergraduate Republican Club but left after encountering what he calls "some unbelievably crooked politics for a silly little campus organization." Equally unattractive to Elliott was the small circle which produced the now apparently defunct Salient, a right-wing periodical. "I had a sense of approval that there was some discussion going on, some of it intelligent, says Elliott. "But...they wanted to be snide and defensive and 'intellectual.' "He didn't sign on. "I guess I enjoy politics much more when you feel you're having some sort of impact--not on world events but on whether...
...mere 709 votes over a sorely split Democratic machine, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. became the first Republican mayor of the heavily industrial city in 34 years. But he soon had a problem that threatened to tarnish the good-guy image. A 1978 cover story in the now defunct New Times magazine reported that twelve years earlier, while a law student at Marquette University, Cianci had been accused by a 20-year-old Milwaukee telephone operator of having raped her at gunpoint in his apartment. Cianci sued the magazine for $12 million but settled out of court when New Times...
...Neighbors, now about 450 in number, are successors to the defunct College Teas Association, which was founded in 1894 and held regular, formal gatherings in the President's House for Harvard's elite faculty spouses. The wife of the President traditionally presided over the affairs...