Word: moribundity
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...returns 10 years later and starts a small company. By canny trading around the textile bazaars of Bombay, he corners the market in imported polyester, starts his own factory, outwits sclerotic bureaucrats in New Delhi who are trying to run the economy by regulation, and ultimately ignites the moribund Indian stock market with his vision of turning Reliance into a petrochemical and oil refining empire?a dream he realized not long before he died...
...annual Ozzfest tour, old-timer Black Sabbath fans tickled to find the band's singer still breathing. More important, it has done the near impossible: got viewers excited, in a Didja-see-it-last-night? way, about a show that for all practical purposes belongs to TV's most moribund genre, the sitcom...
...Francisco Zen Center (Counterpoint; 385 pages) isn't the abuses and failings it chronicles, so much as the fact that they happened in the ever-elusive, and ever-alluring, world of Zen. Of all the Far Eastern spiritualities that Americans began importing as replacements for their own moribund faiths in the '60s and '70s, Zen has always been the favorite to actually survive the trip and work a genuine change upon the American psyche. So unorthodox is Zen in its very orthodoxy, so hyperdistilled and culturally neutral are its tenets (when it admits to having any at all), that...
...reading about jazz. But no, the story revealed the anemic jazz industry's crossover bid to dress up a pop singer as a jazz artist. Jazz still resonates with life in places like Latin America and Northern Europe, but in America it has become irrelevant and moribund. LEE M. COHEN Belmont Heights, Calif...
...says a senior Administration official. Secretary of State Colin Powell threatened to cancel Zinni's mission if Sharon did not pull back from all the territories occupied in recent weeks. The President chastised Sharon during a press conference Wednesday, saying the Israeli offensive was "not helpful" to the still moribund peace process...