Word: defunction
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...Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election - is both pragmatic and popular. She has nevertheless been derided by opponents as lacking a credible platform and accused of wanting the top spot to advance another run at the presidency in 2012. Meanwhile, Martine Aubry is the architect of France's now defunct 35-hour workweek; she is known as a tried and tested traditional leftist seeking to take the party back to its roots. However, she generates resistance and even disdain within both the party and the public, who see her as stuck in an ideologically rigid era that has passed. Both...
...Brattle Street building served as the headquarters for his legendary (and now-defunct) home furnishings company, Design Research. Thompson and Design Research are credited for bringing the bold and colorful textile designs of the Finnish company Marimekko to the United States. Crate & Barrel has a long partnership with Marimekko, having featured its highly-popular textile designs on its bedding ensembles...
...last name comes from the defunct state of Prussia. Its old capital, Konigsberg—renamed Kaliningrad by the Russians—seldom makes the news for much of anything. That changed, at least temporarily, when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the day after Barack Obama’s election to the White House that Russia would place missiles in Kaliningrad in response to a Bush administration project, a planned missile shield in Poland...
...Uncle first hit the funny pages in 1940, with an appearance in the National Comics series, published by the now defunct Quality Comics. In the series, Uncle Sam was a Revolutionary War soldier whose soul merged with the spirit of Liberty. He was killed in battle but remained on Earth to fight for freedom. He briefly starred in his own comic book, Uncle Sam's Quarterly, which was published from 1941-1943. After a long hiatus (although he was memorably parodied by Mad magazine's Alfred E. Neuman during the Vietnam War), Uncle Sam returned to comics...
...whole - have changed in the past decade. Next summer gays will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the 1969 Manhattan demonstrations that began when cross-dressers angry about police raids at the Stonewall bar began throwing bottles and punches. Today, though, the street movement is basically defunct. And increasingly, the center of gay power is moving out from Washington toward the interior - toward powerful foundations like those run by Stryker in Kalamazoo and Gill in Denver. Since the beginning of 2001, Stryker's foundation, which is called Arcus and has offices in both...