Word: defunction
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...Science Mentors Program is a replacement for the now defunct Radcliffe Science Alliance that brought first-year women students interested in science to campus a week before orientation for seminars and speeches...
...defunct Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) administered the program...
...This case, broadly put, is based on perception. If you're one of the doctors whose name appears under the dripping-blood graphics of the now-defunct site, you're likely to perceive the situation as threatening. But if you're an anti-abortion activist, you're likely to point to the definition of "unlawful threat," which the Supreme Court has ruled is "explicit language likely to cause imminent lawless action," and argue that your First Amendment rights protect language, even language some may find offensive. But is this just offensive language? Or is it essentially a call to arms...
...which ended spectacularly after one term in Congress when he spent $30 million of his own money unsuccessfully running for U.S. Senator from California in 1994. Her career flourished out of the ashes of his: Arianna became a regular on TV gab shows, founded her own think tank (now defunct), launched a syndicated column and settled in as a close adviser to Gingrich, who was busily undertaking a revolution...
Every year, about 10 student organizations become defunct, according to Cooke. The greatest factor in student group survival, she ways, is whether there is enough interest...