Word: defunction
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...campaigned as a successful business mogul, declared himself broke. Despite his troubles, he won re-election in 1994. But the litany of scandal never stopped. In 1995, after a court ruled that Symington was personally liable for a $10 million loan from six pension funds to his now defunct real estate company, he declared personal bankruptcy. Then last year a federal grand jury indicted the Governor on 23 felony counts. He declared himself a victim of sloppy accountants and said he never intended to defraud his creditors...
...FRANCISCO: R.J. Reynolds, owners of the Camel cigarette brand and its now-defunct cartoon icon Joe Camel, have signed a $10 million settlement with 13 Californian cities and counties. State attorneys, who filed the lawsuit in 1991, get their fees paid with $1 million of the settlement amount. The other $9 million will go toward anti-smoking education aimed at undoing Joe's influence among children. Surprisingly, R.J. Reynolds did not offer to pay off the settlement with Camel-embossed duffel bags and cigarette lighters...
According to Friday's Hospitality Worldwide Inc., Friday's American Bar--a new bar-restaurant design from the Creators for T.G.I. Friday's--plans to replace Eliot Street's now-defunct California Pizza Kitchen by the end of this year...
Years ago, as the associate editor of a now defunct magazine, I was sent west from Washington by my editor with instructions to stop every hundred miles at the nearest small town and see what there was of interest. En route my Studebaker Starlight coupe got bogged down in the muddy road and had to be rescued by a tow truck. One stop was Grafton, W.Va., pointed out on your map as the "Birthplace of Mother's Day in 1908." I thought I would find a vase of red carnations on the altar of the Methodist Church where...
Sarah J. Schaffer '97 is interning this summer at San Diego Magazine. She may be reached at 73504.1040@compuserve.com or, if you want to make her really happy, through mail sent to and then forwarded from, her now defunct Harvard account...