Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tanner actions are fueled by the "Big Bad Wolf" principle of justice: the way to attack evil is to huff and puff and try to forcefully blow your opposition down. In a democratic society, such archaic theology only encourages resistance. To wage a successful campaign against pornography, Tanner must restructure his game plan...
Many impoverished, debt-ridden Third World countries are only just beginning to make their way along the only path forward -- the free market, painful and politically explosive though that is. Again, why should the U.S. care? Even though Marxist revolutionaries and guerrillas still carry on their archaic battles in many places, the danger of such countries' "going communist" is sharply diminished. But the developed world needs Third World countries as markets. Also, economic turmoil would put heavy pressures on the U.S. and other Western nations, not least through growing streams of emigrants...
...film with a suitable sense of whimsy; he uses silent film placards to establish the time and place of scenes. "December 25," one reads, "Traditional Christmas celebrated." The stilted editing of the scenes is also reminiscent of a time before talkies. These techniques only heighten the charming and archaic air of the film...
...CONTINUE to urge the College to abandon its archaic, aristocratic policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status--a biological accident--improves an applicant's chances of being admitted by almost three times...
...risk takers. Since East European currencies cannot be readily converted into dollars or other hard cash, Westerners must often take their profits in bartered goods, such as clothing or foodstuffs, which can be sold in other Western countries. At the same time, the area remains plagued by grasping bureaucrats, archaic trade rules and primitive roads, phone systems and factories. Says Jan Vanous, research director of Plan-Econ, a Washington-based consulting group that studies Eastern Europe: "Investing there is really for people who know what they are doing and have a strategic vision." Quite a few adventurous companies have followed...