Word: moribund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability to get by may be only forestalling severe economic setbacks. Orville Goodin, Panama's Finance Minister, predicted last week that the country's output of goods and services will shrink 20% in 1988 from last year's level. Tourism, which in 1987 brought in $187 million, is practically moribund...
...last week's Pennsylvania G.O.P. primary gave Bush enough delegates for the nomination. That prompted a belated congratulatory call from the Vice President's last remaining opponent, Pat Robertson. Although details must be worked out, Robertson will receive prime TV time at the convention in return for suspending his moribund campaign. Bush forces are planning several regional unity meetings in June to stroke supporters of the other Republican candidates flattened by the Bush juggernaut...
...American initiative, largely based on the moribund 1978 Camp David plan calling for an interim period of Palestinian autonomy, telescopes the earlier agreement's five-year time span into a matter of months. The Reagan Administration's newfound sense of urgency was clearly inspired by the latest Palestinian uprising. The U.S. was also prodded into action by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who in Washington two weeks ago promoted a plan calling for a six-month truce and the convening of an international conference. The Administration combined some of Mubarak's suggestions with elements of previous proposals into what Secretary...
...fall of La Generale's share price in the stock-market plunge made it a perfect target. Yet De Benedetti, an engineer by training who turned a moribund Olivetti into a global power in office computers, is unlikely to take apart La Generale as a ruthless raider might do. Instead, he aims to expand the company into a Continental conglomerate in preparation for the era beyond 1992, when the trade barriers between the twelve European Community countries are scheduled to be eliminated. That step will create a wide-open marketplace of some 320 million consumers, a powerful launching...
...inference that the New Left somehow "caused" the counterculture and Sixties radicalism in general. Rather he succeeds brilliantly in distinguishing the origins of the radical student movement from those of the youth counterculture with which it frequently overlapped. He portrays the New Left as a generational reaction against the moribund remnants of 1930s labor union socialism. He is adept at tracing both SDS's breakaway from its older parent party, the League of Industrial Democracy, and the influence of "red diaper babies"--the children of Old Left families--on the political radicalization of himself and many of his friends...