Word: defunctive
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...list of ancient and faded powers we must add the Undergraduate Council of Harvard College. There are only two problems with the analogy, however. The first is that the council is not actually defunct; it is still recognized as the official organ of representation for the undergraduate population and probably will be for some time to come...
...name to his government two popular opposition figures, retired Brigadier General Aung Gyi and Aung San Suu Kyi. That omission all but doomed the effort. Aung Gyi, who won wide support for his public challenges to the defunct Ne Win regime, called U Nu's action "preposterous." Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of a martyred national hero, told TIME that "U Nu is a possibility" to head an interim government. But she savors comparisons of herself with the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, and when asked if she was willing to head a government, she responded, "If I thought it necessary...
...multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price is the usual recompense: a paltry -- albeit eternal -- shift in allegiance. Since this is fiction, Joe resists more than most. But ultimately...
That Vanity Fair, one of the most celebrated avant-garde magazines of the 1920s, would once again be a trendsetter was exactly what Newhouse and Conde Nast Editorial Director Alexander Liberman hoped when they revived the long- defunct magazine in 1983. But after one of the most heralded debuts in recent publishing history, the new magazine collapsed under the weight of its own pretension. Eleven months and two editors later, Newhouse and Liberman hired Brown, an Oxford graduate whose spunky editing had turned around the British satirical monthly Tatler...
...assured of capturing at least two-thirds of the 1,000 delegates still to be elected. A majority of the 643 super-delegates -- public and party officials who are nominally unpledged -- are also known to favor Dukakis. These recruits, together with scores of delegates now uncommitted or hooked to defunct candidates, will provide the critical mass necessary to settle the issue...