Word: moribundity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colonialism was a heritage of a more glorious age in which the Portugese nation was not so moribund. Moreover, the exploitation of the colony, if not so efficient as British or French methods, eased the financial burdens at home...
Guralnick takes the reader many places: in Chicago, to Muddy Waters' house, to the moribund offices of Chess and to the hospital for a visit with Howling Wolf; to Newport, 1964, for the dramatic recovery of Skip James; to backwoods Louisiana, for "a real country supper" with Robert Pete Williams; and to Memphis, for visits with Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich. Wherever possible, he lets the artist tell his own story. He wastes little time attempting to describe a musician's style, instead concentrating on tracing the man's influences. One begins to sense the intimacy of the circles...
...insight to see that there is something wrong in this protest, that there is in fact something wrong with the enormous decline in antiwar activity since 1970. The cause for protest, the war, remains, yet the student movement--the backbone of the antiwar movement--appears somnolent, if not moribund...
...widely regarded as the best-looking Foreign Minister in Europe, as well as the best traveled, having visited 60 countries in the past three years. Tough and openly ambitious, he is more politically flexible than LÓpez RÓdo: he has been associated with both the half-moribund Falange party and the pragmatic, outward-looking Opus Dei, whose members (including LÓpez RÓdo) dominate Franco's Cabinet. While he was Minister...
...Incomes succeeded several years ago in persuading unions to cooperate with employers in raising productivity, enabling at least some industries to grant wage increases and hold the line on prices. Eventually, dissatisfied unions began pressing for higher wages; the board's power waned, and it was all but moribund by the time the Tories abolished it last year. In The Netherlands, wage and price controls worked during the 1960s, but as inflation began to grow two years ago, they proved far from totally effective...