A striking number of ambitious construction projects lie dormant, half-finished.
Over the past few decades, as more steel mills, grain elevators, and railroad yards have gone dormant, roughly half the city's population has fled, and now, apparently, even its buildings are headed south.
Despite King's decision to return to print publishing for his next two books, he doesn't consider The Plant - the tale of a supernatural vine which grows wild in a publishing house - dead and buried, "just lying dormant for half a year".
The biggest new hit on television is a reality show that did not get a head start in the summer, that remained dormant for half the television season, that seemed to have little chance to appeal to younger viewers, and that had to face formidable competition not only from "Desperate Housewives" on ABC, but also from three straight weeks of the Winter Olympics on NBC.
Dormant for half a year maybe, but never rule this boy out.
When Felice chartered buses to bring Palestinian journalists to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem; and buses to bring Israeli journalists from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to Ramallah as the Second Intifada was winding down, her colleagues said she was "jumpstarting professional cooperation" that lay dormant for half a decade.
One of the most contentious rivalries of baseball's wild-card era has lain dormant for a half decade while a new rivalry with new villains supplanted it.
INDIAN MOTORCYCLE CO., Gilroy, Calif., a three-year-old motorcycle maker that revived a brand dormant for almost half a century, has sold $45 million of preferred stock to the Audax Group, a private equity firm from Boston.
It was utterly dormant for about half a decade after that.
And the injury list, rather dormant in the first half of the season, is growing.
