Word: defunction
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...inside as they do outside." They also sounded as if they were unaware of one of John Maynard Keynes' most trenchant observations on the way the real world works: "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...
Epps said the financial advice program had been planned for a long time and had not been sparked by any particular fiscal mess like the problems of the now-defunct Harvard Delivery News Service (HDNS). In the spring of 1980, Epps took out loans totalling $14,000 and used $2000 in his office's "discretionary funds" to pay off the HDNS debts...
...more widely representative constitutional convention gathered in October to produce a final constitution which would be given to the student body for approval This convention, of which I was the chair, was composed of members elected from each House and the Freshman Yard, and six members of the defunct constitution committee to lend "expert" advice...
Americans need to believe that the wealthy are loaded but human. The rich enjoy the same pleasures, but theirs are flavored with caviar. They back the same causes, but on a grander scale. Jock Whitney escaped from Nazi captors and "fought for freedom. "His paper, the now defunct New York Tribune, endorsed Lyndon Johnson for President. Demigods of glitter, the jet set lands now and then to mingle and be ogled...
...devote themselves to charting these periodic cycles, make no pretense of perceiving a rational causality in it. Rather, they channel their energies into sniffing out the true trend-setter-or-reviver from among the herd of recherche hangers-on who persist in feeding off the piled carcasses of defunct trends...