Word: defunctive
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...first publication was a story called "Winter Rain" in a now-defunct magazine, Charm...
...wasn't such a bad time to be a teenage girl. It was during the late 1980s and early '90s that knowing young women in hair dyed the darkest shade of no-one-understands-me seemed to claim their place in the Zeitgeist. Launched in 1988, the now defunct Sassy magazine racked up awards and hundreds of thousands of subscribers as the first teen magazine to pay homage to girls uninterested in bubble-gum pop and the notion that true love flows only to those who wear tube tops. In 1989 came the cult film Heathers, featuring a 17-year...
...male hangover. If the President, Deans and department chairs of the University continue to offer only significant improvements, in the vein of "gender-blind" appointments, neither they nor most of us will see the day when The Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard can happily go defunct...
Hong Kong's democratic transformation, at this moment, is all but defunct, and legitimate local political representation has been weakened. The popularly elected Legislative Council will soon be dissolved under China's auspices; in its place, a legislative body "elected" by China's appointed representatives from Hong Kong will take charge. Laws protecting free speech and other forms of civil liberty are subject to amendments, putting the future of this free society in danger...
This upgrade is a positive sign, for it signals not only the administration's commitment to keep Harvard abreast of the latest computer technology, but also an acknowledgement of the indispensability of e-mail on the Harvard campus. A defunct e-mail system means a non-functioning student body. Without e-mail, no one would be able to communicate effectively with professors, teaching fellows, and friends and family back home...