Word: moribundity
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...Moribund Measures. Congress did manage to shove through at the last minute a stopgap financing bill to forestall payless paydays for the District of Columbia government and five other agencies that were technically without funds because their appropriations had not been approved. In addition, the Senate Finance Committee cleared a bill to raise social security payments 15% across the board, bringing a little closer to action the benefit increases that the President pledged a year...
Mickey Could Win. Scanning the rest of the field, Lindsay remarked that Michigan's Governor George Romney is probably dead politically, and was moribund even before he weighed in with his "brainwashing" blooper. Richard Nixon would be acceptable unless he pursued an overly militant line on the war. Ronald Reagan would be anathema to the party moderates; Lindsay thinks that the conservatives would probably not even press Reagan's candidacy, since they want a Republican victory this time rather than another Goldwater-style debacle...
...completed movie, its blemishes notwithstanding, emerges as an impressive artistic accomplishment and a lasting tribute to Miss Whiteside's 50 years of inspiring zeal and unflagging dedication. And the film is evidence that, in one place at least, the ancient Greek language, far from being dead, is not even moribund...
...possible." History supports his skepticism. Previous scandals, while firing reformist zeal, have resulted in little action. The Senate ethics committee itself is a monument to congressional distaste for self-regulation. Created by a 1964 resolution, the committee had no members for a full year and was virtually moribund until the Dodd investigation. The ten-point platitude adopted in 1958 as a code for the entire federal establishment is little more than an inside joke. One of the toothless injunctions requires "a full day's labor for a full...
...Moribund Market. One of Galbraith's main contentions is that the rise of the technostructure has brought the demise of that cornerstone of capitalism, the free market. As avidly as Eastern Europe's socialists, the U.S.'s industrial organization men embrace the cult of planning, leaving very little to the chancy market. Galbraith argues that they carefully plan production, use aggressive advertising as part of that planning to bamboozle the public into buying, and are sufficiently monopolistic to "establish prices and insure demand." In the fastest-rising industries-defense, space, atomics, electronics and supersonic transport-they have...