Word: moribundity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steinbrenner's team won the World Series last year and the year before, vindicating his capricious rule of the turbulent Yankees. In 1973, he pleaded nolo contendre to a felony chargeand started from scratch with a moribund franchise. He's still a felon--but a winner...
...that detail an issue's main features and its key advocates and critics. Then she invites interest groups to the White House to speak their minds. Later, potential supporters are asked back and told how they can aid the President on the issue. To help Carter's moribund energy bill, for example, Wexler last year met with at least 1,000 state officials and farm, urban, religious, business and. consumer leaders...
Likewise, it would appear clear that the Faculty should grant normal academic credit for work done at universities abroad, which would represent a departure from current policy. A fifth question, which considers whether or not the University should resurrect the now-moribund writing center, presents some difficulty. The Writing Center represented an attempt to deal with a very real problem, but it was prohibitively expensive. While the University should certainly investigate alternative responses to the problem, the Writing Center is not the answer...
...three others, also charged with conspiracy to murder: David Holmes, 48, a Manchester financial consultant and former deputy treasurer of the Liberals, and George Deakin, 35, and John Le Mesurier, 46, both friends of Holmes'. But the real focus of attention was Thorpe, who had spurred his moribund party into a powerbroker's position in the House of Commons after Britain's 1974 general elections-and then resigned as leader two years later, after Scott made a courtroom claim of his sexual liaison. Thorpe repeatedly denied the accusation, but the storm finally broke last August, when formal...
...overriding similarities. First, and most basic, all are products of Australia's film community, probably the world's fastest-growing (75 features in the past eight years), and the work of a relatively youthful group of Australian film makers who are breathing new life into a once nearly moribund movie industry. Beyond that, most of these films deal in the search for roots that they obviously hope will sustain their new creative venturings?and perhaps make up for the general neglect of their nation's aesthetically usable past...