Word: moribundity
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However, Tilney said at the time of the operation, only 50 percent of heart transplant recipients could be expected to survive. "There are too many variables to be able to predict whether or not a patient will accept the new heart, but Boucher was moribund; he would have died [much earlier] without the operation...
Nevertheless, the Shultz-Gromyko meeting, with its explicit goal of getting arms control back on track, is the single most hopeful bit of progress in U.S.-Soviet relations since the now moribund START discussions got under way more than two years ago. When President Reagan was told about the Geneva plans last Monday at his Santa Barbara ranch, recalls McFarlane, his response was simple and apt. "This is good news," Reagan said...
...conquering style in the arts, however, is safe from a return of the vanquished, often dressed as an avantgarde. Today spartan modernism has been surprised in its sleep by a postmodern taste for ornament and the revival of moribund styles. Partly as a result, some artists are garnishing the edge again. Trompe l'oeil frames, tutti-frutti borders and jigsaw-cut silhouettes are multiplying in galleries that not long ago featured only trim metal runners...
Heavyweights must measure up to John L. Sullivan, and Biggs' flaws are that he has no charisma and cannot punch. But the state of the division must hearten him: it is the main reason boxing seems moribund again. When Dempsey went, he was taking boxing with him. Then Louis came along. Marciano. Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard made the welterweights the heavyweights, and this is slim Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like...
...difference against B.C. was Landry, who shook up a moribund offense with a spectacular three-goal performance...