Word: moribundity
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ARGENTINA. President Carlos Menem is presiding over a remarkable revival of what was a once moribund economy, but his austerity program has triggered a series of food riots in the suburbs of Buenos Aires...
...test the political waters on paring entitlements. But that would still leave unresolved a ticklish problem: Where would the savings from entitlement reform go? Congress is awash with it's-the-deficit-stupid fervor, while the Administration covets new money to pay for the President's still moribund investment agenda. "If this is a strategy to free up a little more money for the White House to spend," Kerrey says, "I'm not interested in doing...
Such an atmosphere of growing militance would seem to be an opportune moment for a resurgence of the American labor movement, which had never looked as moribund as it did this past year. In mid-November, Big Labor watched in fury as a Democratic President, whom it had helped elect, pushed the North American Free Trade Agreement through a Democratic Congress over heated union objections that the pact would cost jobs. That humiliation was merely the latest in a string of setbacks for labor since Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers...
Murphy, a native of Kingston, Mass., and a former Division I-AA Coach of the Year, is credited with reviving a moribund Cincinnati program and guiding it to its best season in 17 years...
...turn of the decade, the religious right's national crusade seemed moribund. A series of spectacular embarrassments (Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker) and costly political setbacks (Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, the 1992 G.O.P. Convention) spawned a cocky conventional wisdom that the holy warriors were a burnt-out force. Then from the ashes arose a new strategy of striking at the local level to seize the national agenda from the bottom up rather than the top down. "We do our best to fly under the radar of the media and professions so they don't know what hit them until...