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But just a year before the first phase was to have been completed, the site is moribund.

A year later, the two took control of Commercial Credit, the moribund financial arm of a computer company, and put the same formula to work.

You do not have to be a member of the moribund Socialist Labour Party of America to see the political appeal of that.

If the current moribund economy turns into a lost decade, as some economists fear it might, it will be crucial to be prepared for it.

Analysts expect him to try to accelerate reform of the moribund economy and attract foreign investment after his recent visit to China .

Cinema, claimed by many to be moribund at the end of the Nineties, is still hungry, furious and vital.

Ironically, the EU broached the talks as a way of protecting itself against the trade- diverting effects of the now moribund US-Korea deal.

But hopes that the country's moribund wireless market will be opened up to greater competition have been dealt a blow.

One form of Chinese pressure on North Korea is a renewed drive to help it reform the moribund economy.

Clumps of thyme and oregano remain moribund, but deep within their decaying masses, a few green leaves still can be found.

But finally this year, the government seems to have jump-started the moribund project.

It matters little when a language becomes moribund and disappears. It's natural selection, applied to culture. The strongest wins.

In the Soviet Union, where the aged leadership was dying off and the economy was moribund, people were starting to question the system.

DOTCOMS may be moribund, but inside companies, the Internet is still finding cost-saving new uses.

That looked moribund compared with the 9% rate confirmed in Germany a few days earlier.

Even so, many bits of it, especially private mortgage-backed securities, remain moribund (see article).

Nerves calmed in the money markets and the most moribund corners of the credit landscape showed signs of life.

The US dollar, a once proud and honest currency, is moribund , like the nation it represents.

Here were moribund patients, who would surely have died without treatment, improving . . . within a matter of hours . . .

The government is trying to stimulate the moribund economy.

The financial district, normally a sleepy version of Dubai, is now moribund as Western expatriates have fled.

Zhao Gou and history, like the rulers of all moribund, extremely licentious corruption.

Low mortgage rates and depressed home prices have done little to revive the moribund housing market.

A bold Chinese initiative could be the last best hope for reviving the moribund Doha talks.

Lenin pointed out that imperialism is monopolistic capitalism, parasitic or decaying capitalism, moribund capitalism.

Senior Italian figures are also pressing for more fundamental changes to free up a moribund economy and spur growth.

Moribund demand for homes, despite rock bottom rates, is an important part of the reason.

As recently as a decade ago , much of the state sector was moribund and loss making .

A good reason for removing moribund and dead birds from a flock is to reduce the numbers of infectious organisms available to pen mates.

Many economists point to America's moribund housing market as a major contributor to the economic downturn.

Beijing is expected to try to kick-start the moribund IPO market with the sale of state-owned assets.

None of this will help America's moribund housing market.

Still, China does have an environmental problem. But it stems from its moribund political system--not its growing economy.

The fear is that policymakers will overdo it, spoiling one of the rare sources of dynamism in a moribund world economy.

AS BARACK OBAMA casts around for ways to bolster the American economy, one area of focus is a still-moribund housing market.

"Change has not come fast enough, " he admitted in a 70-minute speech which largely focused on the moribund U. S. jobs market.

While QE has boosted financial-asset prices, though, U. S. house prices remain moribund and unemployment, while improving, remains high.

Moribund and incurably ill animals must be euthanized immediately.

Despite Labour's caution, some recent signs suggest that the economy is not entirely moribund.

One is whether separatism is quite as moribund as it now seems.

To fight this recession the Fed needs. . . soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment.

Soon , rain fell and continued for several days, bringing life back to the regions moribund fields .

But the issue has languished over the years and the current Doha round of trade negotiations remains moribund.

But this almost all became moribund hope, it changed back into diem also is black mountain apathy echoes of the just.

And only some of the stuff its better-paid workers buy will come from the moribund rich world.

Huge swathes of industry were protected from foreign competition by high import tariffs, leaving them moribund.

Plans for a free trade area of the Americas (FTAA) are moribund.

Moreover for its moribund economy to grow, it needs urgently to improve trade and investment relations with India.

Another couple of twitches were detected in moribund housing markets.

Moribund before the financial crisis, the IMF is once again a linchpin of the international financial system.

Indeed, facing a moribund US and Europe, consumer multinationals are today particularly grateful for their emerging market operations.

forming galaxies and voracious black holes of the universe's past are now moribund.

Stephenson and Thiel point out that science fiction is moribund; the new work is dystopian, not inspiring.

In the moribund patient deepening coma are the usual preludes to death.

Within it, reform would not just revive moribund economies, but also create the chance of future growth to safeguard the single currency.

Moribund markets are the norm in most of Europe but France is bucking the trend.

But what really sets 21st-century Africa apart from its moribund 20th-century self is its improved financial management.

But securitization remains moribund, even for high-quality loans.

The moribund IPO market makes it harder for venture funds to cash in their investments.

The change is that the pungent wine is angry for the perfume of the wine, takes a decadent and moribund peculiar smell.

The CBRC was established five years ago and since then the country's previously moribund financial sector has been transformed.

The excess supply of homes also is seen keeping construction at moribund levels.

Only 20 years ago, they were dwindling, with moribund diaspora bodies under Soviet tutelage.

So for most people in countries where this can be read, there are only moribund organisations for promulgating goodness.

Yet sales of homes remain moribund, bank credit has contracted and the recovery is feeble.

Aden, the southern capital, once a busy trading port, is moribund.

Moribund customs; a moribund way of life.

Even so, this once-moribund idea suddenly has political legs.

They said it was outdated, moribund, and in decline.

But the spectre of the moribund Doha round of trade talks haunts the minds of some.

The lumber and paper industries are moribund.

A moribund economy simply cannot sustain a debt-to-GDP ratio of more than 200%.

The government can take the opportunity to privatize more moribund state companies.

I feel too alive in this row of moribund girls with their eyes half open.

And if the Fed finances federal deficits in a moribund economy, it can create more money than the economy can use.

Private banks may not lend to farmers, and the government agriculture bank is moribund.

We keep being told that the IPO market is moribund because of Sarbanes-Oxley.

This is particularly true for western banks in search of growth away from their moribund home markets.

The government kept moribund banks alive and rescued companies that didn't need rescuing.

As a result, beginning in the late 1970s, China's moribund economy hit warp speed.

And so to hot, humid Saigon itself, a place that manages to be modern and moribund at the same time.

That is less likely if the most vulnerable sectors are already moribund.

In a nutshell, Japan's problem was deflation and moribund investment;

The moribund way of life