Word: moribund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the agreement has created an uproar in France and has gives new life to a moribund opposition. Two fundamental questions are on the lips of every French politician: what effect-symbolic or otherwise--will the deal have on the Polish crisis and how dependent will France really be on the Soviet Union for energy...
...venerable Fulton Fish Market and construction of a pavilion for restaurants and shops that Ben Thompson has designed. To be completed, in its first phase, by the end of 1983, the development, which is a short walk from Wall Street, may bring a little Baltimore pizazz to a moribund area of Manhattan...
There is a new owner around to take care of the players as well. Walter J. Haas from Levi Strauss & Co. bought the club for $12.7 million from the mercurial Charles O. Finley last summer. Already he has infused money into the moribund farm system, hired scouts and set about rebuilding the flimsy organization left behind by Finley. Martin is thriving in his role as paterfamilias to his young players: "These kids can be molded. It's a lot easier than taking a person set in his ways. I've had both, and I've won with...
...away from the Soviet leader's infirmities, but it had the opposite effect. For a time, in fact, it obscured the main import of his speech. A quarter of the way through his address, Brezhnev extended an olive branch of sorts to the West, offering to revive the moribund SALT process and even proposing a summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan...
Like an artist making the first brush marks on a blank canvas, President Reagan last week set out the initial signs of his Administration's economic program. In three swift strokes, he decontrolled domestic oil prices, abolished the moribund Council on Wage and Price Stability, and placed a 60-day freeze on about 100 pending federal regulations that were issued in the final days of the Carter Administration. None of those steps will make an indelible imprint on the economy, but taken together they show that the new Administration intends to translate the program outlined during the presidential campaign...