Word: archaic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been able to manage costs during the strike because our temporary workers are not subject to the union's archaic work rules and restrictive job practices. In our talks with the union, we are trying to achieve the same level of flexibility in work assignments of employees represented by Local...
There is something valiant if archaic about Clinton's trying to resurrect activist government. Delivering the goods is far more difficult today. Government is broke. And the issue is not a bathhouse that can be built for a few hundred thousand dollars but a health-care entitlement that could cost trillions...
...when Brown received several dozen questions from the two Senators; by April 20 the number had exceeded 100 and ranged from travel in Azerbaijan (he has never been there) to concern about his dropping a requirement that Peace Corps volunteers be instructed in the menace of communism (the archaic provision was no longer being observed). He was also asked whether he had thrown any objects, "including human feces," at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Brown was at the suit-and-tie end of the antiwar movement and was inside the convention handling Senator Eugene McCarthy's delegates, nowhere near the Yippies...
...rest is more ordinary. Rigg is wonderful in quiet moments but awkward in striving for the unchained melodrama that Zoe Caldwell achieved in a 1982 revival. The balance of the cast, also from London, is workmanlike, save for Nuala Willis, whose keening songs redeem that most archaic of theatrical ploys, the chorus. The set, a vast wall of rusted metal panels that bang like thunder and tumble away at key moments, is effective but excessive, a tacit confession of shaky faith in the power of the play's words. That doubt is foolish. Medea is the greatest role ever written...
...court based its decision on the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which, it said, protects potential jurors from unfair discrimination. Condoning race and gender-based peremptory challenges, it determined, risks perpetuating "invidious, archaic and overbroad stereotypes about the relative abilities" of the different genders and races...