Word: antediluvian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GETTING THEM in the mail now--the antediluvian sprinklings from Harvard-Radcliffe organizations mobilizing for Registration Day drives in the fall. Once you cellists, editors, sopranos, and politicos arrive in September, zealous upperclassmen will besiege you to join the H-R This and That Club or at least put you on its mailing list. Soon torrents of literature will make you feel like the poor sucker Uncle Sam means when he points a gnarled finger and croaks, "I want...
...countless other newspaper bargaining sessions, the sticking points in New York were job security and automation. The city's publishers have been trying for more than 15 years to revamp their antediluvian production methods and eliminate wasteful staffing practices, but the craft unions, fearing job losses and declining membership, have always resisted. In March 1977, the Publishers Association, representing the three dailies, informed the pressmen that when the old contract expired on March 30, 1978, it intended to demand major changes in work rules. The papers hope to reduce through attrition the swollen crews and institute "room manning...
...while science advances, patients are denied what may be an effective treatment for many human ills by the persistence of antediluvian notions of the drug's ill effects and of archaic legislation. Those who oppose allowing use of marijuana as a prescription drug point to numerous studies that have accused it of horrible side effects ranging from lowering hormone levels in males to damaging brain tissue. Many of these studies, though, are methodologically dubious; the political requirements of funding never take precedence over sound research technique. Generally, these studies use extremely high dosage levels to establish harmful effects. Few establish...
...surprisingly, no company willingly relinquishes its antediluvian employment practices. There is almost always enough money for a good fight, maybe even a little harassment. When 9to5 got Massachusetts Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti to sue three Boston publishing houses for unfair employment practices, one firm tried to subpoena 9to5's membership records. Although the suit was bound to fail, the company must have realized that the expense of a lawyer would hurt...
...their counterparts back East. Men committed to zero defects and preoccupied with cosmic realities began to wonder if air you could taste was fit to breathe. California was distinctive no longer. The state that waltzed through the '60s now faced the same problems as those antediluvian provinces east of the Rockies...