Word: moribundity
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...just two years, software employment has soared from 95,000 to 130,000 jobs in Massachusetts, a state that has suffered some serious high-tech busts in the past at now moribund places like Wang. Starting salaries, which ranged from the high 20s to the high 30s a year ago, now start in the high 30s and go up to $50,000 a year. "We have a wild market at the moment," says Joyce Plotkin, executive director of the Massachusetts Software Council, who predicts more double-digit employment growth over the next two years...
...share his predicament, or hope to in the future, might do well not to speak in such insinuating tones of painful choices. We should not delude ourselves, with all our affected mannerisms, moribund imaginations and studied pessimisms, into thinking that we live on the razor's edge...
Bailey, whose back was injured in a 1992 railroad accident, is using some of his settlement money to pay for political commercials. An independent thinker, he promises to replace the moribund Social Security system with a plan requiring workers 45 and under to save 15% of their income in an ira. Once they and their spouses are deceased, he says, the unspent money will help pay the national debt...
...seen its stock rise by 130%. General Electric's has advanced by 180%. And Microsoft, while not in the same line of work as Time Warner, has pleased investors with a 1,260% jump in value. Thus the pressure now builds on Levin and Turner to drive the moribund stock higher. But that's not all. The huge company faces a number of other problems, including the need to restructure the enormously complex cable system business, reducing or eliminating duplicating work in the post-merger world, and of course focusing once and for all on how the remove the albatross...
...sync with developments back home. While Muslims worldwide howled in protest, he announced he was "proud" that his government had opened the Jerusalem tunnel. Hours after the initial Israeli-Palestinian gunfight, he asserted that "there is nothing to worry about." As for the complaint that the peace process was moribund, he maintained, that was absurd since he had after all already met with Arafat once. Asked whether he thought Netanyahu was insensitive, a senior U.S. diplomat replied, "Oh, my gosh, that's an understatement...