Word: antediluvian
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...problem was named "Compugraphic 2000"--a linebacker-sized box of wires and circuits that served, in those antediluvian days, as the paper's typesetting computer. Simply put, the damned thing wouldn't work...
Some will call me an antediluvian sentimentalist, but I cannot help thinking, especially in light of the Stanford incident, that giving 15-year-olds cards is an immeasurably more moral project, and in many ways a much safer one, than giving them condoms and sending the messagethat sexual promiscuity is fine when practiced "safely...
Given the current state of pro sports economics, Take Me Out to the Ball Game needs a little updating. And so does the antediluvian notion that fan support is the key to franchise success. A ball club needs not only gate receipts and a good media contract but also steady revenue from stadium advertising, sweetheart concession deals and, especially, luxury boxes. "Luxury boxes are critical these days," says Craig Simon, director of sports marketing for the Chicago consulting firm of Frankel & Co. "A stadium that doesn't have them is in danger of losing its team...
...must be admitted that to one entire class of American citizens, the + strictures of an antediluvian past still seem to apply. Representative Patricia Schroeder, announcing her withdrawal from the 1988 presidential race for lack of funds, was greeted by her supporters with such a storm of affectionate protest that she was moved to tears. For this she was castigated, not only by supercilious males but also by a gaggle of superheated feminists, as just another weak woman, temperamentally unfitted for the presidency...
...secret that children may be embarrassed by their parents' gray hair, their outmoded clothes and opinions that may seem as antediluvian as dinosaurs. And parental physical incompetence can be mortifying. For Tom McDonough, 49, the memory of playing baseball with his 58-year-old father is especially painful. "I said, 'Dad, run, run.' He dropped the bat and looked at me and said, 'I can't.' " Says Sasha Lawer, 30, a daughter of older parents: "When I wanted to play, they would send my brother...