Word: defunction
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...client was retarded or that he had an IQ between 58 and 69 and had been beaten with whips, water hoses, extensions cords, fan belts and wire hangers as a child." I couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye Tucker. "Please don't kill me," said Bush with a condescending quiver. And the riff on gang violence? It's fine to take on gangs, but I couldn't help but notice Bush...
...Americans to come back in with huge amounts of money," says Livingston. "A lot of infrastructure needs to be rebuilt." At the Waha oil field, hundreds of kilometers into the Sahara from Essider's harbor, the production lines are monitored from a computer room equipped with the defunct Data General's 1982 system. "I'd say we're at least 15 years behind in technology," explains Gordon Snowdon, 55, a Briton in charge of production at the oil field's biggest station. "Actually, we're frozen in the 1970s." Over the past year, delegations of American oil executives have flown...
Gunter Thielen didn't expect to play peacemaker when he took over as chief executive of Germany's Bertelsmann in August 2002. The company was laden with $3.5 billion in debt and a slew of dubious new assets, including the controversial online file-sharing site Napster and the now defunct Rosie magazine in the U.S. Still, Thielen's biggest challenge was an internal one: Thomas Middelhoff, the flamboyant CEO Thielen replaced, left behind a simmering crisis between the $22 billion firm and its key owners, the Mohn family. Reinhard Mohn, the 82-year-old patriarch, was so upset by Middelhoff...
When we were but youngsters, before the holiday season of 2003, we lived in a gloomy world where the sun drooped in the sky and love was defunct. And then, Love Actually floated into our lives. It entered graciously, with its attractive ensemble cast, heavy British accents and predictable romantic-comedy script. It said, “I am Love Actually. Love me.” And, despite ourselves, love...
...We’re getting testimony from three recently formed groups, and inviting members of defunct groups in to talk to look for trends,” Kidd said...