Word: defunction
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...seems that in 1967 Edwards' now defunct Ottawa-based printing company had produced a magazine for the Soviet Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal, but the Soviets refused to pay the final $26,000 invoice for the printing order. When Edwards approached the Canadian Department of External Affairs for some needed muscle, he was informed that he would have little luck in collecting the debt. "They told me," says Edwards, "the Russians had immunity." Undeterred, Edwards considered trying to impound the ice skates of the visiting Soviet hockey team. In 1973 he persuaded a local court to order...
...uncovered a virtual gold mine: the largest heroin laboratory yet found in Western Europe. Police estimated that the lab could produce up to 50 kg of heroin a day, worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here I am), and then defiantly refused to say another word. Bensinger believes that...
...back measures that would revive Pennsylvania's coal and steel industries. Both have endorsed a mixture of tax cuts and "supply side" incentives to improve the national economy. Both back the MX mobile missile system; Specter charges that Flaherty is "soft on national defense" because he opposes the defunct B-l bomber and neutron bomber programs, but Flaherty counters that he supports the cruise missile and Trident submarine programs...
Court Judge William Ingram found the white-haired Bonanno, 75, and Nephew Jack DiFilippi, 54, guilty of conspiring to interfere with a federal grand jury probe of four now defunct companies in San Jose, Calif.-two construction firms, a manufacturer of mattresses and a women's clothing company-that were run by the don's two sons, Salvatore (Bill), 48,* and Joseph Jr., 35. According to federal authorities, the companies were laundering money from illegal Mafia activities...
...somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin to the expunging of the Tsars...