Word: moribund
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials James Watt and Anne Burford nearly destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency. But a worsening environment has put the naysayers on the defensive as they struggle to explain ever dirtier air, moribund forests and lakes, oil spills, desertification and the ozone holes over the poles...
Webster turned out to be just such an opportunity. The decision had the unintended consequence of rousing the moribund pro-choice movement. Wattleton had long maintained that a silent majority of American women did not want anyone tampering with their reproductive freedom. "Now the majority is getting noisy," she says. Witness the recent national Mobilization for Women's Lives and the elections in New Jersey and Virginia in which voters selected pro-choice Governors. Wattleton asserts that she does not want her teenage daughter to be fighting the same battles she is. To that end, this woman who looks like...
...been blighted by a half-century under an economic system that practiced pick- a-number pricing, taught enterprises to hoard inventory and rewarded them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests: all these come fairly naturally. Instilling entrepreneurial spirit and managerial efficiency on any level higher than selling lemonade at curbside is a lot harder. Eastern Europe is littered with the wreckage of previous attempts...
Loosening restrictions on Soviet citizens' access to foreign currencies is not just another glasnost gambit. If the Soviet Union hopes to feed itself, it must find ways of getting its moribund farming sector to perform better. Notes a senior Western diplomat: "If they could import goods from a Sears catalog, that might be a pretty good incentive...
...fuss, SDI seems moribund. Despite appropriations of $17 billion over the past six years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...