Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upstairs, thick red carpets still covered the corridors, and the highceilinged rooms had all the old British furniture and fixtures, including the archaic bathtubs with U-shaped bottoms that make it difficult to stand up and take a shower. As before, the Big Ben clock on the Customs House a few blocks away sounded the hour, though Red Guards had changed the chimes to play The East Is Red, China's national anthem...
...central government. Another factor is the advance of modern communications, which has brought the threat of cultural homogenization much closer to many once isolated peoples. The result is that such communities have renewed their insistence on maintaining their own languages, their own traditions and-all too often-their own archaic rivalries...
...agreements between their leaders may have endeared him to the nation's business and union barons, but he hardly helped advance America's working people towards a humane society of personal worth and participation. He speaks often of his friendly relations with working people, but, in reality, his archaic political views and patronizing attitude toward workers means they will not have an ally on the Cost of Living Council. George Meany may regard our former dean highly, but to steel and automobile workers he is just another labor bureaucrat...
...state. Many of the signers are prominent in medicine and some are practicing Catholics. All, moreover, acknowledge that they have performed or arranged abortions because "we believe it is our duty to help women." The doctors realize that their admission makes them liable to punishment under France's archaic law prohibiting abortion except to save a woman's life. But they are undeterred. "We will stand trial together," they proclaim defiantly...
...automation, particularly in the composing room. "We have to have it," insists Times Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger. While many papers elsewhere have clung to life and profits by modernizing technical operations, Bertram Powers, president of Typographical Union No. 6, has forced the New York dailies to retain archaic machinery and procedures. Automation would allow the Times, for one thing, to phase out Linotype machines (a 19th century invention) and install computers that can set type directly from edited copy. Such moves have been anathema to the printers in the past. Ten years ago Powers was the key figure...