Okrent has expertly restored it in Last Call, and in the process rehabilitated our pop-culture-atrophied cultural memory.
Mr Rogers still remembers that movement, which atrophied after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and Americans discovered other priorities.
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Vigorous anti-monarchism was associated with the hard left, and has atrophied with it.
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Countries that were once economic powerhouses atrophied and declined, like England after World War II, once they began adopting socialism.
One perceived weakness of the civil service is in the development of strategy, a central function which atrophied in the Tories' final years.
His political supporters, their numbers now dangerously atrophied, call this courage.
All it takes is a magic, three-letter acronym to turn this boring, complacent sector, dominated by huge (some would say atrophied) organizations into the height of techsex.
Alas, several atrophied partnerships and an ultra-competitive market have left TiVo scrambling to survive as of late, even after that quarter in the black.
What, then, is the net effect of this bewildering system, in which budgeting arises from the interplay of an atrophied legislature and a patchwork of voter decisions?
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None of these upstarts is poised to replace the traditional friends asking friends for cash contributions, but they are fabulous indicators that thon fundraising has not atrophied into a one-size-fits-all coma.
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The policy of forcibly enrolling the finest Balkan and Greek youths for imperial service meant that the Ottomans had a healthily self-renewing body politic in contrast to the atrophied oligarchies of western Europe.
On Wednesday it agreed on timetables for liberalising trade and investment with Japan, already a major presence in the region, and with India, whose commercial links with South-East Asia have sadly atrophied since the 10th century.
As for why, experts say employers may think that unemployed applicants' skills have atrophied, that they lost their jobs because of their own shortcomings, or that they will jump at any job offer and then leave as soon as something better comes along.
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