Word: defunction
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...catalyzing force in the divorce process was Pi Eta, a now defunct speaking club that Fox said often associated itself with final clubs. This “vestige of an early club system” published a newsletter that referred to women invited to a club party as a “bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter.” Though Pi Eta was not itself a final club, the outrage over the publication sparked discussions about whether the final clubs could continue with their ostensibly exclusionary policies...
...educational requirements that I and my fellow seniors fulfilled are now being phased out. The “Core Curriculum,” established in 1978 to define “a standard that meets the needs of the late twentieth century,” has become outmoded, defunct, quaint. Now, “General Education” is being rolled out to replace it.On face, the Core and Gen Ed aren’t particularly different. At times, Gen Ed even looks like nothing more than a rehashed Core. Both programs demand that students take classes outside their specialized...
Mount Bachelor's Lifesteps seminars appear to share these tactics and philosophy. Several of its top employees formerly worked at a now defunct chain of troubled-teen programs known as CEDU, which was founded by former Synanon members. "The process of breaking kids down is very much integrated into the therapeutic milieu," says Kat Whitehead, executive director of the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth, an expert on such abuse, who has testified before Congress on the topic. "Unfortunately, that seems to be very common, at least in the private facilities...
...staff photographer for the now defunct Jacksonville Journal, Morabito, then a 27-year veteran of the paper, was driving back to the newsroom in July 1967 after covering a railroad strike when he passed a group of utility workers by the side of the road, shouting about an unconscious, electrocuted co-worker dangling from a pole...
...when someone elbows you in the eye but says it’s an accident. It wasn’t anyone’s fault that that stray brick had messed up Ezekiel’s ear. But that didn’t mean he was defunct. And even if he was a Negro, it was still such a waste: that this man, whose family was “away” (dead), was about to just toss out his Easter.Before I could even think to be scared I said, “Why don’t you just...