Word: moribund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performers. As Brustein himself has complained, it is nearly impossible to keep good actors in Cambridge with New York just a shuttle away. For some reason, though, a covey of new and returning talent has decided to roost at the ART this season, revitalizing a company that was moribund two years...
...that was then nearly five years old. The new President boldly proposed peace talks with the Marxist rebels, then met their leaders at a church in La Palma, a town in guerrilla-held territory. Buoyed by generous aid from the U.S., Duarte vowed to revitalize the country's moribund economy. Today, however, an end to both the simmering war and the deepening economic crisis seems a distant possibility...
LAST FALL, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. '60 and his cadre of politicos at the Democratic National Committee put together a new "Policy Commission" to inject some excitement into their moribund party. The mandate of this fearsome phalanx was to hunt down some New Ideas and forge them in the Great Democratic Furnace. The desired result? A new image for the Democratic Party...
Only a decade ago, however, Massachusetts was moribund, the archetypal Frost Belt state frozen in a dead-end past. Its jobless rate was higher than any other industrial state's; plant closings and layoffs were epidemic; deficits deepened. Textile mills and shoe factories became abandoned shells, their great machines rusting. Taxachusetts became the state's unofficial nickname, and businesses, feeling oppressed by heavy levies, were clearing out for more hospitable climates...
...happened so fast. One minute, the long-cherished dream of streamlining and simplifying the cumbersome U.S. tax system seemed moribund, unable to withstand the hordes of lobbyists and influence peddlers arrayed against it. Then, shortly after midnight last Wednesday, the entire Senate Finance Committee was on its feet roundly applauding the chairman, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood. In the committee's offices down the hall, jubilant committee staffers uncorked a case of champagne. In an auditorium downstairs where the deliberations were heard on an intercom, an overflow crowd of lobbyists hissed...