Word: moribundity
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Loosening restrictions on Soviet citizens' access to foreign currencies is not just another glasnost gambit. If the Soviet Union hopes to feed itself, it must find ways of getting its moribund farming sector to perform better. Notes a senior Western diplomat: "If they could import goods from a Sears catalog, that might be a pretty good incentive...
...fuss, SDI seems moribund. Despite appropriations of $17 billion over the past six years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...
...Canada, only one month ago, the Liberal Party was moribund. It was running last, 14 points down in the polls, behind even a minor third party. Then it suddenly found its voice as the fierce defender of the nation against the American threat, disguised this time as a free-trade agreement. The Liberals turned the election into a referendum on patriotism. That did not win them the election -- though the left would have won had it not divided its 52% of the vote between two parties -- but it did save them from catastrophe. They doubled their representation in Parliament...
...idea, recently suggested in a Crimson staff editorial, that a student center will somehow provide a panacea for the "moribund" social life on campus seems wishful thinking...
Nevertheless, during his reign, from 1969 to 1986, Rosenthal introduced a more compelling, interpretive magazine-style journalism and ushered in the weekly specialty sections (Science, Living, etc.) that soon became the standard for the industry. In the process, he transformed the respected but financially moribund Times into one of the world's most valuable media enterprises. How Rosenthal's editorial talent propelled him to the pinnacle of American journalism despite what many agree are serious personality flaws is the theme of Joseph Goulden's Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times (Lyle Stuart...