Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard scientists opposing the ban damaged their case critically long before entering the City Council chamber. They did so by insisting that the lab containing this potentially dangerous research be built in the antediluvian Bio Labs, in the middle of one of the nation's most crowded cities. A simple, political, but not necessarily correct decision, would have been to void that choice, and propose a new facility built from scratch...
...been hastily painted over to erase Fretilin slogans. Gongs and cymbals clanged, and drums sounded amidst cries of "Merdekaf (Freedom) and " Viva Presidente Suhartor No Indonesian armed forces were in sight, only a handful of local militiamen in ragtag colonial uniforms and wide-brimmed hats, carrying a variety of antediluvian weapons. Finally, we reached a grubby, squat sports hall adorned with a sign saying "We wish you a happy conference." The 28-member People's Representative Council had already started its historic session...
Bellows has since brightened the paper's makeup, hired irreverent Pulitzer-prizewinning Cartoonist Patrick Oliphant away from the Denver Post, added a progressive, young editorial-page editor and dropped a few antediluvian columnists, and proffered readers a daily front-page "Q and A" column (one surprise subject: Post Publisher Katharine Graham) and "The Ear," a brassy capital gossip column...
...evidence is clear. The primary task of this University--education and research--is falling into neglect under a system with bureaucratic incentives for efficiency and economy. Without a vigorous attempt to change the attitudes and antediluvian methods with which Harvard manages its money, students can expect to continue to pay more and get less...
...have become the world's proving ground for conservation methods-thanks, in large part, to the collaboration of university laboratories and major chemical firms like Italy's Montedison. The techniques used by the more than 60 restorers and artisans in the Fortezza make most earlier methods look antediluvian. Says Umberto Baldini, 50, the dynamic head of the laboratories: "Once, restorers were like doctors who were trying to operate on a body without having done anatomical research. But the emergency of the flood made it obvious that art and science had to be brought closer together in a long...