Word: moribundity
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Moreover, since the opening of the farmer's markets last October, there has been a flurry of economic activity even within the moribund peso-driven sector of the economy. One such place is the Marianao farmer's market, in a drab workers' suburb of Havana, where customers seem to be complaining about high prices--but are still buying. A vendor named Jorge is doing a brisk trade in his homemade marinade of vinegar, garlic, onion, salt and cumin. ``I used to teach language at the university,'' he explains. ``But I was making only 325 pesos a month. Life is very...
...from other fringe groups that have sprung up in America and taken up arms. The Ku Klux Klan, for example -- born as a social club and quickly evolving into a militia, recruiting members through appeals to patriotism -- still thrives on hatred of blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics and foreigners. The moribund Posse Comitatus, a militant group based in the Farm Belt, wanted to wipe out the tax collectors. The patriots, by contrast, have a more generalized fear of Big Government, which they say is rapidly robbing individuals of their inalienable rights, chief among them the right to bear arms. Patriots were...
...time Louis Auchincloss came along to write such Jamesian, Whartonian novels of manners as The Rector of Justin and The Great World and Timothy Colt, the Society of Mrs. Astor's ballroom no longer meant much, except to itself. The European aristocracy that it had tried to emulate was moribund and more impoverished than ever, and in the U.S. there were simply too many circles of the rich and self-pleased -- in the oil and entertainment industries, in politics, in the media business, among wealthy alumni of Midwestern cow colleges, lately in the computer industry -- for any one social elite...
...this investment in peace by saying that the only alternative is war. This is a simple capitulation to blackmail. The U.S. never threatened war as an alternative to agreement. It threatened economic sanctions to squeeze North Korea into complying now, not someday, with its nuclear-treaty obligations. Pyongyang, economically moribund and starved for oil, then rattled its saber. Clinton caved...
...Administration's moribund crime bill got some emergency treatment from three influential members of the Congressional Black Caucus who, though still opposed to the measure as it now reads because of its harsh death-penalty provisions, nevertheless agreed to help return the bill to the House floor for further debate. At week's end members of both parties were discussing a deal that would create a sexual-predator task force, make minor revisions in the measure's assault-weapons ban, and slash more than 10% of the bill's $33 billion funding...