Word: moribundity
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...needs free alarm clocks and umbrellas? To spike moribund magazine sales, it seems, nothing works better than hiring a new reporter--particularly one with an international following and a Nobel Prize. That at least has been the experience of Cambio, a Colombian newsweekly whose newsstand sales have doubled since novelist GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ bought the flagging magazine and joined its reporting staff. Undercover assignments are out of the question, but the author, who worked at a newspaper before becoming a novelist, insists on doing his own legwork and recently covered peace talks between the government and rebels. "Journalism...
...surprising for the IMF to defend itself so vigorously while failing in its task of reviving moribund economies. Why doesn't the IMF follow the example of the World Trade Organization, which is implementing a systematic and slow liberalization of trade barriers to allow the competitive upgrading of domestic industries before they must compete on a par with external economies? The IMF asks countries to do the impossible in a short period of time. But the best way is not the free-market way. NELSON LOW Singapore...
WASHINGTON: After a flurry of high-level talks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have reached agreement -- to go home and keep talking, and then to return to Washington in October and talk some more. The White House Monday was clearly hoping to revive the moribund peace process and give President Clinton a foreign policy achievement to crow about. But the only concrete step to come out of the initiative was that Madeleine Albright (to her thinly veiled irritation) will fly the Middle East with Dennis Ross on October 6 to nudge talks along before Arafat and Netanyahu return to Washington...
...time again, as President Clinton and Japanese prime minister Obuchi met Tuesday in New York. And while Clinton was doubtless prepared to touch on issues such as North Korea, if only to be polite, Topic A of Tuesday's summit was expected to be -- you guessed it -- Japan's moribund economy...
Football coach Tim Murphy is a good coach. He's turned a moribund program into a champion. He's already shown he can do a great job training future coaches. After all, the reason Harvard had an opening for Bruce Tall, a minority, as defensive coordinator was the departure of Mark Harriman to become the head coach at Bates...