The Doha Trade Round, for example, looks moribund, and the World Trade Organization appears less than robust these days.

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' moribund stock, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian today urged the world's biggest automaker to join rivals Nissan and Renault in a global alliance as a way to return to profitability after two years of losses.

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The economic funk in Europe and America has meant that the industrialised world's equity markets have been fairly moribund.

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With the Doha Round of multilateral trade talks moribund, this decision could shape the future of the world trading system.

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And much more serious than that, because it affects the whole world, is his failure to put anything worthwhile on the table to help revive the moribund Doha round of trade talks.

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