Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar techniques are used in the Italian countryside, whose forest space is theoretically protected by archaic laws. Technically, speculators are prevented from building in woods. The solution: forest fires. Nearly 200,000 acres of forest were burned last summer, and Italia Nostra estimates that at least one of every ten fires-especially on valuable land around resorts like Portofino -was set by landowners or prospective buyers. So blatant is the ruin of "protected" space that the Mayor of Pescasseroli, a town in the Abruzzi National Park, issued permits for speculative hotels and villas that involved the felling...
...first edition turned out to have occasional variations in notation from the version in use today, betraying even more clearly the song's derivation from an 18th century hit tune called To Anacreon In Heaven. At the same time, as sung by the Hill Chorale, the slightly archaic harmonies had a classical dignity that suggested the effect the song may have had on those who heard it first...
...recent months, Miralles has led a campaign to streamline Spain's archaic and cumbersome judicial system, which has no fewer than eight kinds of courts. Among these are military tribunals and "public order" courts run by political functionaries who have almost unlimited power. Under the law of public order, for instance, a man can be sentenced to a long jail term-with or without trial-merely for knowing a homosexual or a marijuana smoker...
...that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...
Management policy has been equally archaic. Railroads have rarely attempted to put an aggressive salesmanship effort behind their services, a trick that truckers were quick to learn. That failure goes far to explain the drop in the railroads' share of intercity freight traffic to 39% now from 56% in 1950. Some railroads also have paid out in dividends more than they earned in profits, a practice that did much to bring the Penn Central down...