Word: defunction
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...defunct Pi Eta final club occupied the building before Grendel's opened in 1970, and the brass mailslot at the entrance still bears the name of the club, Kuelzer said...
...GWYNNE and LARRY GURWIN, who collaborated on this week's investigative story on the controversial Austrian trading company Nordex, used to be fierce rivals. Before joining TIME last year, Gurwin wrote for the Economist and the now defunct business magazine Regardie's on the early 1990s scandal involving the Bank of Credit & Commerce International (B.C.C.I.)--a story that Gwynne had reported on for Time. What's more, they both co-authored books on that tangled tale. It was useful preparation for their encounter with Nordex. Unlike B.C.C.I., Nordex has never been charged with any crimes, although it has been under...
Loker is not Harvard's first attempt to maintain a student center, but it differs dramatically from its now-defunct predecessor, the Harvard Union...
...merger, the student membership of the now-defunct D.U. Club has been left out in the cold...
...first this argument seems logical and demagogically appealing. A dialectical look, however, reveals its utter hypocrisy. The Great Hall is not the only example of a redundant monument to a defunct, "oppressive" culture. Another excellent example of such a work is the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, Egypt. While ancient Egypt is very much the culture du jour, those of us who appreciated this civilization long before it was fashionable to do so realize that, like turn-of-the-century America, it had many not-so admirable aspects. For 2,000 years, the Egyptian Pharaohs and High Priests poured...