Word: moribundity
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Like Lemieux's move, which turned his struggling franchise into a sold-out event, a Jordan comeback would help his moribund investment in the Wizards. NBA rules would require him to sell his shares in the team, as Magic Johnson did with his brief, inglorious comeback to the Lakers in 1996, but he'd surely buy them back when he hangs his Jordans up again. And meanwhile, the Wizards would draw some free agents and a whole lot of fans. (For the moment, the Wizards aren't budging from their Sept. 4 deadline for season tickets, so if Jordan doesn...
...Like Lemieux's move, which turned his struggling franchise into a sold-out event, a Jordan comeback would help his moribund investment in the Wizards. NBA rules would require him to sell his shares in the team, as Magic Johnson did with his brief, inglorious comeback to the Lakers in 1996, but he'd surely buy them back when he hangs his Jordans up again. And meanwhile, the Wizards would draw some free agents and a whole lot of fans. (For the moment, the Wizards aren't budging from their Sept. 4 deadline for season tickets, so if Jordan doesn...
...example that, yes, this column was watching with particular interest, AOL Time Warner beat earnings expectations but was deemed to have done it all through cost-cutting and accounting magic, and so was beaten by traders like a mule that was not only rented but over-dependent on the moribund ad market...
...numbers in the reports, one could be forgiven for a little head-scratching. Yahoo narrowly beat Wall Street expectations by earning something - a penny a share, compared to 11 cents a share last year - and had no good news whatsoever about its continued reliance on the moribund online advertising market. The stock was up $1, or 5 percent, in Thursday's trading...
...TIME.com Q&A, former TIME Tokyo bureau chief Frank Gibney assesses Koizumi's chances of living up to the wild sense of promise that his election brings to Japan and its moribund economy...