Word: moribundity
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...While the Mets cut the Giants down to size and made the Cardinals look like flightless birds, the Yankees were positively moribund in September and finished the season by losing seven in a row. They have righted themselves somewhat in these playoffs, but a team that lost a total of two games in their last two playoff runs has already lost four in this one. The pitching (excepting Rivera) is weaker, the hitting still waking up. Not until the seventh-inning explosion that clinched the ALCS in Game Six did the Yankee bats begin to remind me of old times...
...bother? Because their host had incited in OPEC's leaders a belief that their moment had arrived and that they'd better seize it. Hugo Chavez Frias, 46, the fiery nationalist President of Venezuela, saw an opportunity in the booming economies of the developed world to turn a moribund cartel back into a global economic powerhouse. Against the backdrop of soaring energy prices, which have tripled during the past two years to a high two weeks ago of $36 per bbl., Chavez took center stage in Caracas last week to proclaim OPEC's "resurrection...
...Kings of the Hill, a very readable history of House leadership. One of their conclusions was that many of the most effective Speakers rose to power by taking an obscure post within the institution and making it important. Cheney did just that with the House Republican Policy Committee, a moribund operation whose chief function when he reached it in 1980 after only one term in Congress was to crank out explanations to members of the G.O.P. position on various issues. Cheney turned it into an internal party forum, where a rising generation of G.O.P. bomb throwers led by Newt Gingrich...
Hearst began his lifetime of accumulation about the time Adolph Ochs bought the moribund New York Times. Ochs and his heirs produced something of enduring value; Hearst and his family and his cronies produced a host of second-rate newspapers and did much to poison the politics of their...
...Manama, from landlocked Amman to seafront Algiers. Oh, and Jerusalem too. Syria, Libya and Iraq will witness the deepest transformations for the simple reason that their eccentric ideologies are the most bankrupt--and the most out of synch with their people. Their institutions are corrupt. And their economies are moribund...