Word: defunctive
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...sheer thrill of a massive contraption hurtling down the tracks--is stronger than peer pressure. Earlier this spring, Almeida, 42, spent five hours in the cold, hoping to videotape the Ringling Bros. circus train, which never came. While waiting, he lovingly pointed out the faded markings of long-defunct railroads on passing trains. "Railroads built this country, and people seem to forget that," he said, raindrops coating his oversize glasses. Almeida tries to find humor in the new age of scrutiny. Says Bob Weiler, a fellow railfan: "John's got four cameras. No terrorist would do that." "Unless," says Almeida...
...last-ditch effort to reassert its relevance in the face of Harvard’s mental woes, the soon-to-be-defunct Bureau of Study Counsel will recommend that all students begin rigorous regimens of primal scream therapy. The Bureau will be vastly misunderstood...
CHRISTOPH FRANZ High Flyer Swiss International Air Lines, successor to the defunct Swissair, has been flying low since it took off in 2002. The unprofitable carrier is seeking to get lift from its new CEO, Franz, 44, who most recently worked at the German railway Deutsche Bahn. But it was Franz's track record at Lufthansa that put him in the Swiss pilot's seat. In the early 1990s, Franz helped then CEO Jurgen Weber free the German carrier from high labor costs and years of losses. Lufthansa tried and failed to grab Swiss late last year...
...This is a problem faced by Cliff Muskiet. Over the past 30 years the KLM flight attendant has amassed one of the world's largest collections of stewardess uniforms. He even has very rare 1960s uniforms from defunct Braniff Air that were created by celebrated Italian designer Emilio Pucci. But Muskiet is not always happy to depart with spiraling sums for air couture...
...commonly known as the Superfund law--one of the boldest environmental statutes in U.S. history. It was a law designed to fit all circumstances. It covered existing plants whose owners could be forced to clean up their dumps. It covered polluted sites long since abandoned by their owners: defunct factories, refineries and mines. Even when companies followed the standard, if dubious, practices of the day--dumping toxic waste in rivers, burying it in leaky drums or just leaving it, as in Oklahoma, to blow in the wind--they would be held accountable. And if they refused to clean up their...