Word: moribundity
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...Physicians for Social Responsibility was a moribund organization devoted to detailing the medical consequences of nuclear war when Helen Caldicott, 43, then a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, took over as president in 1979. A zealous opponent of all things nuclear, Caldicott took her message all over the country, and her hellfire oratory soon attracted a following. Since then, membership in P.S.R. has grown from ten doctors to 11,000, and the Boston-based organization now boasts a 22-member staff, 85 chapters in 45 states and a $600,000 annual budget...
...tell Paul Volcker about the anguish of high interest rates and a moribund economy. Whereas many top Government officials can often find themselves cushioned from the consequences of their actions as public servants, the chairman of the Federal Reserve has been feeling the direct and personal impact of his economic prescriptions virtually every day of his life for the past 2½% years...
Still, the agreement has created an uproar in France and has gives new life to a moribund opposition. Two fundamental questions are on the lips of every French politician: what effect-symbolic or otherwise--will the deal have on the Polish crisis and how dependent will France really be on the Soviet Union for energy...
...venerable Fulton Fish Market and construction of a pavilion for restaurants and shops that Ben Thompson has designed. To be completed, in its first phase, by the end of 1983, the development, which is a short walk from Wall Street, may bring a little Baltimore pizazz to a moribund area of Manhattan...
There is a new owner around to take care of the players as well. Walter J. Haas from Levi Strauss & Co. bought the club for $12.7 million from the mercurial Charles O. Finley last summer. Already he has infused money into the moribund farm system, hired scouts and set about rebuilding the flimsy organization left behind by Finley. Martin is thriving in his role as paterfamilias to his young players: "These kids can be molded. It's a lot easier than taking a person set in his ways. I've had both, and I've won with...