Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adams was jailed for more than two months without being formally charged, an archaic holdover from the harsh Napoleonic code. He was released on $9,750 bail (paid by the EEC) two weeks ago, but while he was in prison in January, his depressed wife committed suicide; the Swiss would not let Adams out of jail for her burial. Roche lawyers also said they regard Schlieder, widely respected in boardrooms throughout Europe, and Borschette as accomplices in the "spying" case...
Peter Halpin '76, co-chairman of the ad hoc committee, yesterday called the present system of procedure "archaic" and said he would try to open the rules committee meetings to all students in an effort to remove the "elitist image...
...Kraut with clout," joked Henry Schoellkopf Reuss last week after House Democrats voted him chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee. For 20 years as Representative from his Milwaukee district, Reuss had suffered Congress's archaic seniority system, waiting impatiently in the wings for his turn...
...Bubble," the Crimson's home for the past six years, burst last winter when violent winds ripped a hole in the canvas structure. With no other place to train or compete, the thinclads have been forced to return to the archaic confines of the Cage...
...share their bloated coal profits with the miners. The longterm economic stagnation suffered by the coal industry has left the mining companies with selfish and antiquated goals. A departure from this mentality of greed will enable the coal companies to imitate the U.M.W.'s advancement from its own archaic past...