Word: defunction
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Years ago he would have given his left pinkie to be the 12th man on the Golden State Warriors' roster. That MobiTV's hoop team, now defunct, lost every game in the Emeryville league doesn't bode well for a career change. But Mikami, 36, isn't done with start-ups: he is diverting some of his earnings to create a winery within three years at his family's 15-acre vineyard of Zinfandel in Lodi, Calif. He's also taking viniculture classes at the University of California at Davis and planning a three-month sabbatical to get his hands...
...latest piece of political activism: a hunt through Washington Square Park for a student posing as an illegal immigrant. The student-actor bore a name tag identifying his undocumented status, while his pursuers sported badges emblazoned with “INS,” standing for the now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service...
...watching all these developments closely is Bigelow, a Las Vegas icon whom many compare with the early Howard Hughes, the aircraft enthusiast who started TWA, although Bigelow, who is in his 60s, isn't as eccentric, probably. Yes, in 1995, he founded the now defunct National Institute for Discovery Science to investigate paranormal activity and alien abductions, principally because his grandparents claimed to have had a close encounter with a UFO. But in 2002 he licensed exclusive rights to NASA's canceled TransHab inflatable habitat and set to work creating his own commercial space stations and hotels. Last July Genesis...
...British army mutinied, mainly due to fears that the British were out to corrupt Islam and Hinduism. The revolt may have been inevitable, but what was wholly unexpected was that the mutineers, in their search for a leader, would turn to an institution that had been all but defunct for over a century: the Mughal Empire. As one contemporary report put it, the soldiers "announced that they had released themselves from the service of the East India Company, and were about to become enrolled as subjects of the King of Delhi." They poured into the capital, drove the British...
...curators seem to have recognized the yawn-factor inherent in displaying 120 educational panels from a now-defunct museum—established by Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals from 1886-1913—that was once the cornerstone of the now-defunct Department of Social Ethics...