Word: moribundity
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Without it, he would be politically moribund. The question now is whether the recovery is enough to blot out Watergate and make the Russians and Henry Kissinger seem less of an irritant to the nation's peace of mind...
...fortuitous connection with quality in film. As a view of a medium laboriously patting its own back, the ceremony is without equal in the world. But how can so much narcissism be combined with so little real glamour? It is the lack of illusion that makes Oscar night look moribund. There is a point when disbelief can no longer be suspended: O.J. Simpson is not Gary Grant, and although Jacqueline Bisset may be the most beautiful girl in the world, she is not Ava Gardner. Without such priests and priestesses, the fertility rite means nothing...
Popular Support. Portugal's construction industry has been moribund since the April 1974 revolution. Partly this is because many builders were speculators who kept afloat on the basis of loans from now nationalized banks that have cut off their credit lines. There has also been so much chaos in Lisbon that the government has been unable to accept several million dollars worth of loans from the U.S. for housing projects that have yet to materialize...
Still, the designation of DNR patients is of dubious legality and hospitals do not give official approval of its practice. Without criteria clearly designating moribund patients for DNR classification, doctors are operating within a grey area. In ambiguous cases, they have no standard guidelines for this crucial judgment...
...designation is part of what doctors say is a larger pattern of nonaggressive treatment of moribund patients. "You have a patient, 90 years old, with metastatic cancer; he's dying. What DNR means to physicians is, 'Look fellas, no heroics. Let the poor guy die in peace,"' Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin, '51, associate professor of medicine and general director of the Beth Israel Hospital, says...