Word: antediluvian
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...plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV, a mine collapse is horrifying for the opposite reason: we see nothing and hear nothing. A group of men is either alive or dead and?in this age of GPS locators, instant messaging and Google Earth?thousands of feet of antediluvian rock stand between us and knowing their fate...
...they do it? By defying nearly every convention of Web publishing. Their site has few interactive gewgaws. Netheads were horrified when, in January 2001, the site began charging several hundred pounds a year to subscribe. Worst of all, it had the audacity to sell its content to that antediluvian medium, the daily newspaper: eight papers across Europe now run Breakingviews content. The result: a lean staff of 10 journalists who churn out a few finely crafted nuggets of financial insight a day. And a few hundred companies willing to pay as much as €73,453 a year for their...
Leisure? How antediluvian! But what do you expect from a couple of three-mealers...
Additionally, there will be a small increase in office space and an overhaul of the heating and electrical systems, which Knowles described as "antediluvian" in an e-mail message...
...line. Future Microsoft PC operating systems will be based on Windows NT, the OS first designed for business machines. NT, a more efficient and secure product, marks the company's long-overdue break from the antediluvian MS-DOS. It will also supposedly run most current Windows programs. It had better...