Word: defunctive
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...defunct 18th Amendment, outlawing the sale of alcohol, should serve as a stark reminder of what happens when the Constitution becomes a repository for our hopes rather than our most basic convictions. While we are at it, we might as well ratify Constitutional Amendments outlawing AIDS, hunger, and poverty...
...challenge. The standard bearer of the liberal-reform faction, Zhu Rongji, 66, Deng's | economic czar, has watched his star soar as last year's GDP grew nearly 12%, to $509 billion. But despite admission by Marxist stalwarts that economic liberalization has saved China from the fate of the defunct Soviet bloc, the economy has become dangerously overheated. Zhu's tough measures to curb growth clearly stem from his sense of how directly his own power is tied to the nation's balance sheet. But in the process he has alienated military officers by taking away their commercial enterprises...
...premise of the books is basic: the great family model of authority is defunct. The world has changed, and with it the context of leaders and followers -- even the conception of what it means to lead...
...would be comical if Holtz didn't actually believe this, but I'm afraid he does. Pity, that. The perfect match, of course, for his struggling bunch of youngsters would be the Red Raiders from the soon-to-be-defunct (and thank goodness for that, bastion of academic integrity as it was) Southwest Conference...
...review was conducted by a subcommittee of the now-defunct University Benefits Committee. Both committees involved a mix of faculty and administrators...