Word: moribundity
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...away from the Soviet leader's infirmities, but it had the opposite effect. For a time, in fact, it obscured the main import of his speech. A quarter of the way through his address, Brezhnev extended an olive branch of sorts to the West, offering to revive the moribund SALT process and even proposing a summit meeting with President Ronald Reagan...
Like an artist making the first brush marks on a blank canvas, President Reagan last week set out the initial signs of his Administration's economic program. In three swift strokes, he decontrolled domestic oil prices, abolished the moribund Council on Wage and Price Stability, and placed a 60-day freeze on about 100 pending federal regulations that were issued in the final days of the Carter Administration. None of those steps will make an indelible imprint on the economy, but taken together they show that the new Administration intends to translate the program outlined during the presidential campaign...
Bane, who today leaves the moribund Education Department--where she called herself a "lame-duck bureaucrat"--reserved comment on those demands for now. "I don't know the internal structure of the Kennedy School, so I'd rather not comment" on the students' sweeping recommendations, she said...
Though Percy refused to divulge full details of his meetings until he briefed Reagan, the moribund SALT II treaty topped the agenda. According to the Soviet news agency TASS, Brezhnev told Percy that the Soviet Union "is in favor of strengthening relations with the United States on a long-term basis," but warned that such progress could only occur if there was no "stagnation" in the two nations' efforts to limit nuclear weapons...
Unlike some of their suburban counterparts, urban malls are often welcomed by public officials. In some cities, the centers can be built on cheap, underused land and will revitalize moribund downtown areas. Such services as sewer and water are already in place, and federal money is available for development. Boston last week won a $19 million urban-development package to help build the $373 million Copley Place. This new city mall will include two hotels, apartments, office space, specialty shops and ethnic restaurants in addition to the predictable shoe stores and record outlets...