Word: defunction
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...Wilmot town hall, a couple of miles from his farm, Hall recently read from his gigantic baseball poem. "I would like to linger with Schwitters in the Fenway bleachers, explaining baseball . . . Well, there are nine players . . ." That's Kurt Schwitters, the defunct German Dadaist, Hall explained somewhat obscurely. Fenway needs no explanation; it is the ball park of tragedy where the Red Sox writhe...
...overseas-job firm in 1981, blames the government for lax policing. "The FTC is impotent to do anything. People don't know where to complain," he says. In the past six months, however, the state attorney general's office has filed civil suit against four companies, including the now defunct Roblan, and is investigating four more firms for deceptive trade practices. Last month the FTC filed a complaint against another Florida operator, the Douglas Co., for allegedly deceiving clients about jobs in sunny foreign climes...
...firms, agreed to pay a near record fine of $400 million to settle a slew of cases charging it with failing to blow a whistle on S&Ls it audited. For example, say the feds, the firm failed to challenge fictitious sales of real estate made by the now defunct Lincoln Savings & Loan in order to inflate its reported profits. Ernst & Young might have been socked $1 billion if it had lost all the individual cases the government had pursued; now its 2,000 partners will pay only $100 million, insurers the other $300 million. But the prosecutors short-circuited...
...November 9, The Crimson ran an opinion piece by Edward F. Mulkerin III under the headline "Nothing to Complain About." The article attacked, with striking vehemence, the now-defunct proposal to grant 29 Garden St. residents priority in the housing lottery. I'm writing not to join the debate over housing, but to criticize the tone of Mulkerin's piece, and to suggest that The Crimson apply a stricter standard in the future to decide what it prints on its opinion page...
...that the author sets up and then solves. We know what to expect. The shabby, battered hero, Arkady, unravels blackest villainy, as he must, from Moscow to Munich, on to Berlin and back to Moscow; unbelievably escapes, as he must, a variety of murderous attacks; leaves a trail of defunct hard guys; and, as we knew he would be when we opened the book, is still standing, bleeding lightly...