Word: moribund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIFFICULT for many people to accept the notion that rehabilitation, or "gentrification" as it's commonly called, of moribund neighborhoods can be anything but an unqualified boon to the area. Those people include, for example, Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, who's convinced it's "a good thing that richer, professional people are moving in, buying condos. Most neighborhoods are whipped right now." To Mayor White, the implication that gentrification could have ill side-effects is outrageous; after Time magazine ran a picture of a burned-out office building "in gentrifying Jamaica plain" he called the photo "a disgrace...
Crenshaw's debut gives a swift shot in the arm to the moribund pop-rock world. Record sales are way down, new and true talent rare, and it takes prehistoric monsters like Fleetwood Mac and Crosby. Stills and Nash to deliver the goods. On Marshall Crenshaw, every last track could easily put most of the FM top forty to shame. Eleven perfect singles are served up, each one seemingly stronger than its predecessor. Furthermore, Crenshaw's melodies are hopelessly addictive; they're just short enough to hook the listener but not entirely satisfy him. Back in the '60s, John Lennon...
COLLEGE ADMINISTRATORS this week finally got around to asking students what they thought about plans to limit summer storage for many undergraduates this year and possibly all students in the future. At yesterday's meeting of the moribund Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, administrators discussed their decision to contract with a professional storage service because of the unavailability of ordinary storage space in Lowell. Leverett and Winthrop Houses--Houses they singled out because of planned renovations or summer school usage. The dialogue was long overdue. It and future discussions should raise serious questions about the viability of alternative storage...
...Physicians for Social Responsibility was a moribund organization devoted to detailing the medical consequences of nuclear war when Helen Caldicott, 43, then a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, took over as president in 1979. A zealous opponent of all things nuclear, Caldicott took her message all over the country, and her hellfire oratory soon attracted a following. Since then, membership in P.S.R. has grown from ten doctors to 11,000, and the Boston-based organization now boasts a 22-member staff, 85 chapters in 45 states and a $600,000 annual budget...
...tell Paul Volcker about the anguish of high interest rates and a moribund economy. Whereas many top Government officials can often find themselves cushioned from the consequences of their actions as public servants, the chairman of the Federal Reserve has been feeling the direct and personal impact of his economic prescriptions virtually every day of his life for the past 2½% years...