Word: moribundity
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Profits at Tiffany jumped 34%, to a record $39 million in 1995, even as mass merchants such as Caldor and Jamesway were trooping into bankruptcy court and closing hundreds of stores. Gucci, the once-moribund designer and retailer of fashion apparel, has come roaring back under Bahrain-based Investcorp, which said just last week that it plans to sell its remaining 51% stake in Gucci to the public for some $1.1 billion this year. Investcorp will also sell shares in its resurgent Saks Fifth Avenue chain this year, six years after buying the once-flagging operation...
...defenseless Cessnas seems to have been of little consequence to Castro. But from the point of view of his own self-interest, the assault was irrational. It destroyed any hope for warmer ties with the U.S., and will probably chase away foreign investment that he needs to revive his moribund economy...
...Republican ranks. However, College Democrats have been doing the exact opposite. Harvard's proud Democratic tradition includes the intellectual foundations of the New Deal and New Frontier, giving America luminaries and presidents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38. Today, however, Harvard Democrats are intellectually moribund. As U.S. News and World Report wrote in November, "At Harvard--long the cradle of liberal ideas and leaders--young Republicans outnumber Democrats...
...persuade Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to provide the extra push that will get his Bosnian Serb kin to the bargaining table. If the new offensive that exploded last week shows both sides they are on a path to greater violence in a war neither can win, the moribund negotiations could take on new life...
...wasn't exactly a breakthrough, but by the standards of the moribund negotiations between Israel and Syria, it was still an important advance. Since 1948 the two countries have officially been at war, but starting in October 1991, they have engaged in off-and-on discussions of making peace. Last week, with the assistance of the U.S., the parties agreed to a common set of principles for the negotiations, which will resume in Washington in late June after a hiatus of six months. Time is running short for a deal since both Israel and the U.S. are heading into election...