Word: moribundity
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WASHINGTON: By the time the other five nations sat down at the G-7 table in Washington on Wednesday, U.S. treasury secretary Robert Rubin had already pulled his Japanese counterpart aside to press the summit's most urgent business -- leaning on Japan to get its moribund economy moving again...
...election, 1.5% of the electorate voted for him. That's about 1.5 million people. I think about those people, I wonder who they are. But I'll never know. The press hysteria before the election was extraordinary. Ordinary people no longer trusted or respected the moribund Yeltsin, but many were afraid of the communists and Gennadi Zyuganov, so the campaign was carried out under the slogan THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS or BETTER DEAD THAN RED. All my friends either voted for Yeltsin, sighing and chanting the sacred phrases, or, overcome by apathy or revulsion, didn't vote...
...With Israel bracing for the inevitable Hamas response, the first casualty, as ever, is the almost moribund peace process. As predictable as the coming cycle of attacks and counter-attacks -- and the consequent breakdown of peace efforts -- may be, no side appears able to rise above the cycle and bring it to a halt. Grounds for optimism are few, says Hamad. "Israelis and Palestinians have by now become accustomed to the fact that they should accept the worst...
...mirror," says Web-Timesman Bernard Gwertzman. The Times' main competitor, the Washington Post, used its Website to break scoops online hours before the morning paper hit the newsstand. At what was once the other end of the news spectrum, the National Enquirer seized the moment to relaunch its moribund Website with what it promised was "late-breaking news" about Lewinsky and her high school teacher...
...committee was moribund when Lewis became Dean of the College in 1995, but he appointed several new members to the committee--which includes three student members and 10 Faculty members and administrators. The committee has discussed both House and concentration advising in the last two years...