Word: defunction
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...declining strength abroad comes not from insufficient numbers of troops, but from continuing dependence on nations whose future we cannot control. No longer will sending in the Marines contribute significantly to our national security; young people should not have to pay for this defunct vision of the world...
...Crisis." Says Hoglund: "Back then we were careful to make the bear look interested but not too threatening, no bared teeth. This time, I saw the bear reaching into Afghanistan, and there was no doubt about it-his paw had claws." Hoglund, an art director for More, the now defunct journalism review, has done plenty of fast cover drafting since he joined TIME in 1977. "Disaster and late-breaking cover stories have a way of striking whenever Walter is away," he says. "First, the New York City blackout in 1977; next, the election of Pope John Paul I; then...
...seemed. Moments earlier, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, co-leaders of the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, had entered a gilded room in London's Foreign Office to add their signatures to a twelve-page protocol that had already been initialed by representatives of Britain and the now defunct Salisbury government of Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa. The document: a three-sided agreement for a complete cease-fire in Zimbabwe Rhodesia's increasingly bloody seven-year civil...
...learned just how urgent this question is when I tried to call the student government office at Harvard. "There is no student government organization," I was told by an administrator in the office of the Dean of Students. "It's been defunct for a long time." After a few more phone calls, I learned that there is indeed a student government organization--called the Student Assembly--but it hasn't been recognized by the administration. By God, an unrecognized student government! How can this be? A student government is essential to any university, for it is the only organized liaison...
...short fiction provided another recourse. Luckily for Faulkner, at the time it was enormous: the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, American Mercury, American Magazine, This Week, Woman's Home Companion, Country Gentleman, Scribner's magazine. Faulkner received rejections from all of these journals, some now defunct, as well as from a few survivors like The New Yorker, but he also published enough to buy precious time for his novels...