Word: moribundity
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...firms surveyed by Zacks Investment Research that have released fourth-quarter results, 51% had worse-than-expected earnings. Another factor depressing Wall Street is the pervasive feeling that the 1980s gold rush of takeovers and leveraged buyouts has finally subsided, largely because the junk-bond market is moribund and banks have grown leery of financing major new deals...
...government policy effectively shackled them: 30 organizations were banned, hundreds of leaders were jailed or severely restricted from engaging in political activism, protests and demonstrations were forbidden, and the police presence in the townships squelched most rioting. The violent liberation movement guided by the A.N.C.-in-exile was virtually moribund...
...influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials James Watt and Anne Burford nearly destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency. But a worsening environment has put the naysayers on the defensive as they struggle to explain ever dirtier air, moribund forests and lakes, oil spills, desertification and the ozone holes over the poles...
Webster turned out to be just such an opportunity. The decision had the unintended consequence of rousing the moribund pro-choice movement. Wattleton had long maintained that a silent majority of American women did not want anyone tampering with their reproductive freedom. "Now the majority is getting noisy," she says. Witness the recent national Mobilization for Women's Lives and the elections in New Jersey and Virginia in which voters selected pro-choice Governors. Wattleton asserts that she does not want her teenage daughter to be fighting the same battles she is. To that end, this woman who looks like...
...been blighted by a half-century under an economic system that practiced pick- a-number pricing, taught enterprises to hoard inventory and rewarded them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests: all these come fairly naturally. Instilling entrepreneurial spirit and managerial efficiency on any level higher than selling lemonade at curbside is a lot harder. Eastern Europe is littered with the wreckage of previous attempts...