Word: moribundity
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...reading check-out and faculty talks, a 24-hour snack bar and a pub with a band, so the center could serve a variety of academic and social needs. If it were filled with performing groups and used for parties and receptions, the center could even revitalize the campus' moribund social life...
...pendulum swung last Sunday night, as it may several times again before the election. Michael Dukakis, whose campaign had been moribund since the Democratic Convention, reasserted his voice at the first of two 90-minute showdowns -- and while his overconfident debater's style may be grating, he consistently displayed his mastery of both the forensic arts and substance. George Bush, while certainly the warmer and more user-friendly of the two, appeared at the same time to be hesitant, disconnected and too often on the defensive...
...Whatever hopes a gaffer might have that the likes of Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...
...real shocker came a day later, when the Bank Board announced the largest rescue in its history. It plans to merge eight nearly moribund Texas S and Ls -- including Dallas' Sunbelt Savings, which lost $1.2 billion in the first three months of 1988 alone -- into one financial organization with assets of $6.9 billion. The Government will provide $2.5 billion of aid initially and possibly as much as $5.5 billion over the next ten years. Although the Bank Board had several offers to buy all eight S and Ls, it determined they were in such bad financial and legal shape that...
Party platforms, cooked in the high temperature of factional passions, quickly , grow cold as the real campaign begins. Voters would rather listen to live candidates than read moribund cliches. But last week, as Republicans finished drafting their 1988 document in New Orleans, G.O.P. leaders thought they had forged a workable weapon to use against the Democrats: the Heft Issue...