Word: defunction
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Paul Solman and Thomas Friedman started out in business as editors of Boston's now defunct counterculture weekly, the Real Paper. There they learned, the hard way, their first lesson in management: somebody has to be in charge. They are not so naive any more. In Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (Simon & Schuster; 248 pages; $13.95), the two examine competition in American business. The rise and fall of the Real Paper is but one of the case histories that they crack open to extract the techniques of corporate survival...
...deficit-prone and now-defunct Student Assembly, for example, rarely financed organizations or sponsored events. But as Harvard's first term-bill funded government, the council has already awarded more than $9000, plans to allocate $23,000 in additional grants, and is now organizing a series of campus-wide social events--beginning with tonight's "Battle of the Bands" in Memorial Hall...
...economic system settles down to feed upon its own inadequacies. It sits in its slippers by the cold furnace and thinks about how well it used to make things, long ago. It disconsolately guzzles Old Smoot-Hawley, far into the night. Then it passes out. Another economy gone, as defunct as Mayan civilization...
...Bostonians fighting to give a defunct electric advertisement the same landmark protection as hallowed Boston Common? Arthur Krim, a consultant to the Massachusetts Historical Society, puts the issue simply:"This sign is also part of the heritage that makes Boston a very interesting place...
...million more by late 1983. It is building a reputation as well as an audience. At the National Cable Programming Conference in Los Angeles last week, MTV won an ACE award, cable's equivalent of an Emmy, beating out competition like the Signature interview series on the now defunct CBS culture cable...