Word: defunction
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...Bartleys have, for example, the original sign for the now defunct Brattle Square T stop. Bumper stickers trumpet the campaign of Representative Joseph P. Kennedy...
...clenched-fist salute and the pinched smile were familiar, but the performance was mere bravado. Erich Honecker, 79, once the leader of the defunct German Democratic Republic, made a small show of defiance as he walked out of the Chilean embassy in Moscow after seven months spent in asylum there. Only a small crowd of supporters were on hand as he left for Berlin, where he can expect to stand trial on 49 charges of manslaughter. The indictments stem from the deaths of East Germans trying to flee across the old inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified...
...over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and it was a whopper. The family of Robert Pagnucco, an assistant general counsel at PepsiCo and one of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing, was granted $9.2 million. A previous trial had held Pan Am responsible for its lax security. Although the defunct airline plans to appeal that finding, its insurers could face more million-dollar verdicts in the 200 or so compensation cases brought by the families of other victims...
LOCKERBIE LIABILITY. In a victory for the families of the 270 people who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, a federal jury in New York City found the defunct airline and two of its subsidiaries guilty of willful misconduct in allowing a bomb to be smuggled aboard. Two Libyans were indicted for the bombing last year, and Pan Am argued unsuccessfully that it should not be held responsible for the work of terrorists. Damages are still to be assessed; the plaintiffs are seeking more than $300 million, which would be paid...
Robb lives deep in Arkansas' Ozark Mountains, off a dirt road that winds through the defunct hamlet of Zinc, past dilapidated mobile homes, rusting farm equipment and rocky pastureland. Chickens and goats pause in the road along Sugar Orchard Creek, and neighbors glare warily at unfamiliar visitors. The Grand Wizard's home, a weathered cedar dwelling and several ramshackle outbuildings, is built on 100 forested acres. Inside, Robb's pleasant wife, Muriel, prepares dinner while Oprah chatters away on a TV set in the cluttered living room. One son, Jason, 18, ponders his homework; another son, Nathan, 21, hauls...