Word: defunction
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...missing uranium several months after the Scheersberg A showed up empty at Iskenderun. They developed evidence that the cargo had not vanished in a hijacking: the uranium was shipped by a firm that knew it would never arrive at its destination in Italy. The firm was a now-defunct German petrochemical company called Asmara Chemie, and it had purchased the uranium-which was mined in what is now Zaire-from the Belgian mineral firm Societe Generale des Minerals. Asmara Chemie had no previous record of buying uranium at all -let alone $3.7 million worth-but on March 29, 1968, Asmara...
Alioto wearily lowered his sights. He reduced his claims to $500,000, for "loss of reputation, mortification and hurt feelings," and offered the case to a judge sitting without jury. Last week U.S. District Judge William W. Schwarzer found the now defunct magazine had shown "reckless disregard" for damaging inaccuracies in the article by Freelancers Richard Carlson and Lance Brisson. He awarded Alioto a judgment of $350,000 plus court costs (estimated at about $50,000). Said Alioto: "How sweet it is." Cowles Communications Inc., which published Look, is now primarily an investment firm headquartered in Daytona Beach...
...former manufacturer in a labor-intensive industry (knitted gloves) now virtually defunct here, I point out that the greater "efficiency" of foreign makers consists mainly of much cheaper labor rates?as low as one-fifth of American rates. When only a few small industries were hurt, who cared? Now that the pinch becomes apparent in the bigger ones, Congress is listening...
...with his lone double bogey coming on the 175-yard par three 16th. He managed a par on the first hole without ever playing off of the fair-way, which is really a 455-yard strip of what was once a polo field adjacent to the Country Club's defunct race track...
...John Maynard Keynes are simply not as rousing as thermonuclear explosions or The Naked Maja. But the obscure theories that economists set adrift have far-reaching consequences. Said Keynes: "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...