Word: defunction
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Wetzel does not own any of the cars he drives, instead he is backed by private groups or professional racing teams. A now defunct group of businessmen backed him for the Italian race and the Bill Scott Racing Team backed him last month in the Gold Cup Super V 100, in Florida in which he took the checkered flag in second place...
...Stockholm he gets a 300, but one at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris is worth only 75; a show at MOMA brings 450, but a retrospective at the Whitney has no listed value. Yet the same show in the Jewish Museum in New York (now almost defunct as a place where serious modern art may regularly be seen) is inexplicably worth 300. Similar ratings are given for participation in group shows, appearance in art books, and the like. The figures seem to be plucked from the air. And so one trudges through what Bongard terms his "parameters," never...
...five years each man has invested from $200,000 to $1 million in one or more of the teams. And they are not alone. "Anybody who invests in sports for profit is out of his head," says Bonda. He should know, having once lost $400,000 in a now defunct soccer team. "The only reason to do it," he says, "is for the fun, for the connection with a sport and the people in it. Maybe it's bringing Walter Mitty up close...
...Representatives for 16 years before becoming the President's first Secretary of Defense, Laird worked as Nixon's Kissinger-on-the-Hill to negotiate key issues with Congress. Harlow, himself an expert on congressional relations, was mainly occupied by the President's halfhearted and now defunct Operation Candor...
...Wobbles About Manhattan In State of Distraction, Nervously Hailing Taxicabs. If that seems to cut subgenres rather fine, novels exactly fitting the description have been appearing every six weeks or so for several years now. In fact, the Nervously Hailing Taxicabs category is as easily recognizable as that now defunct tribe of novel, popular in the '50s, in which young men in gray flannel suits brooded about whether the ad biz was worth...