Word: defunction
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...million financial swindle with nonexistent vegetable oil. No, said the board, to the application of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, 42, who has served two months of his three-year sentence for sending pornography through the mails in the promotion campaign he devised for his publications, notably the now defunct Eros...
...capital was mediated, that is, owned by pension funds, universities and corporate investors. Would anyone claim that no one had the right to ask industrial enterprises to do other than maximize profits quarter after quarter, on the grounds that all property is held in perpetual trust for the now-defunct, profit-maximizing, private investor...
...been a bibliophile since her childhood in Cambridge, Mass. As a youngster she went through a period of fascination with all writings medieval and devoured battle accounts of World War II. After earning a degree in English at Radcliffe, she worked briefly for a publishing house that is now defunct, then joined TIME in 1960 as a Books researcher. Three years ago she became a full-time critic. "If my job ever became such that I couldn't read on my own, I would give it up," she says. "You read differently when you read to review, more slowly...
...group of students and a studio potter, laboring in the obscurity of Briggs Hall basement, have transformed a defunct kitchen into a pottery of professional quality...
...SEND ME TO PRISON cried the full-page ad in the New York Times, but that last desperate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to be in vain. Ralph Ginzburg, huckster-publisher of diverse periodicals (including the defunct Eros, Avant-Garde, Fact and the current Moneysworth) is due to enter federal prison this week...