Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many are doubtful of Hill's claim that she translated her novel from English to archaic Lakota and then back to English to catch Sioux rhythms and emotional tone. Says Sioux Author Vine Deloria Jr. (Custer Died for Your Sins): "How in hell do you type up a manuscript in an ancient language that has never been written down and apparently has no symbols or alphabet?" Now Hill says she has been misunderstood: she did not write a complete Lakota version, but translated important concepts and phrases into Lakota, researched the root meaning of each Lakota term, then redid...
...federal criminal law, a hodgepodge of 3,000 statutes that have accumulated since the first days of the republic. As a whole, says Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel Kenneth Feinberg, the aide most responsible for promoting a new code, the nation's current criminal laws are "terribly unfair, archaic and inefficient...
...first priority of his new job, in fact, had been to reorganize Harvard's archaic management structure. In 1970 on the Corporation's urging, a consulting firm came into the Yard to examine the University's failing bureaucratic machine. Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as its model, the consultants concluded that Harvard was ill-prepared to face the future and suggested a sweeping decentralization of the administration. In his first year Bok heeded the consultant's advice, adding three vice-presidents--in finances, alumni affairs and development, and government and community affairs--where only one had existed previously...
That idea was given a forceful public statement last month by Professor Yacob Talmon, a leading historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staunch Zionist. In a letter to the Tel Aviv daily Ha'aretz, Talmon acidly denounced Begin's autonomy idea as "an archaic concept, a trick to shut the Gentile's mouth." Talmon argued that similarly limited autonomy plans had never worked in the past and charged that the government's territorial and settlement policy not only contributed to the corruption of the Israeli people but also violated "the vital Zionist...
Note: Moloch is an archaic Semitic deity worshipped through the sacrifice of the young...