Word: moribundity
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...Moynihan coolly surveyed the office paintings, indicating his reservations, checked to be sure the elegant desk used by John Kennedy (a Moynihan idol) was still there, settled on a couch and told the President of the United States, 20 years his junior, that the BTU energy tax was dead, moribund, finished...
...THINGS BOSNIA NEEDED, A SECOND THEater of war was perhaps the last. But in central Bosnia, Croats and Muslims began fighting along what was supposed to be the boundary line between two provinces under the moribund Vance-Owen peace plan. Croats subjected Muslims to ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and cold-blooded murder, just as the Serbs to the north and east; there were reports of Muslim atrocities as well. However, late Saturday the two sides signed an agreement in Zagreb...
Relax, I'm not going to rehash the moribund evolution vs. creationism debate. Evolutionary theory is based on empiricism, and thus there can be no argument that it belongs in a science class. Assertions of the type made in the text book, though, go beyond facts. In describing the development of life as "unplanned" and without purposeful design, the book tries to explain the forces ultimately behind evolution. It thus exceeds the bounds of observation and objectivity, and falls into the realm of subjective truth. By implying that no higher consciousness was behind the design of the universe, the book...
...dignified a term may be applied to his professional scramblings, consists largely of filing false injury claims on behalf of not very bright clients. He yearns for something more dignified, and it is a measure of the man's limited imagination that insinuating himself into New York's moribund boxing game looks like a step up to him. His half-baked idea is to revive club fighting, which once kept half a dozen small arenas in the city busy. To help promote the plan he recruits a retired boxer named Al Grossman (Jack Warden, in a canny, counterpunching performance). This...
Little wonder that the parties are moribund, that party affiliation is so brittle, that congressional candidates are now political entrepreneurs beholden to no one. The party convention has become positively quaint. Traditionally it was here that the elders gathered to pick their presidential candidates. That role having long since been forfeited to the primaries, the parties have turned the convention into a made-for-TV show. Perot understands that this new contraption -- parties manipulating media to send out the parties' message under cover of "news" -- is Rube Goldberg inefficiency. Why not let one man go on Larry King and send...