Word: defunction
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...mere five seconds out of an otherwise hectic day to say “good morning” to the dining hall staff or to smile at the groundskeeper when they walk past. We have met the enemy and it is not Summers, the Corporation or any other morally defunct administrative figure?...
...though, Replay-to-Replay show swapping is painfully slow. Software engineer Thomas Wagner, 32, who has three Replay boxes at home, says it took him eight hours to get a half-hour episode of the now defunct show The Tick from another user, even though he has a high-speed cable modem. But he figures all that will change as the technology improves...
...item about the Taliban and nuclear-weapons-construction documents that were uncovered at an abandoned al-Qaeda safe house in Kabul [TIME.COM, Dec. 3] said the humor publication the Journal of Irreproducible Results is defunct. It is not, and interested readers can visit its website at www.jir.com
...though, Replay-to-Replay show swapping is painfully slow. Software engineer Thomas Wagner, 32, who has three Replay boxes at home, says it took him eight hours to get a half-hour episode of the now defunct show The Tick from another user, even though he has a high-speed cable modem. But he figures all that will change as the technology improves...
...Enron affair matured into a scandal just as it began to seem that the culture of celebrity was defunct; suddenly, we remembered that Barbra Streisand was not a political philosopher. Neither is Jack Welch or Bill Gates or, certainly, Ken Lay. In the '90s, we treated businessmen as if they were film stars (and we treated film stars like gods). But we lend stars our affections only; we lend businessmen our chance of future prosperity. A lesson from Enron: we would be wise to entrust that responsibility to those with their feet on the ground, not on a pedestal. Even...