Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overseas arm of the Manhattan investment banking house. Last month Ball even suggested that multinational companies be allowed to escape the control of individual nations through a treaty creating an "international companies law." Only thus, Ball argues, can global enterprises avoid "the stifling restrictions imposed on commerce by the archaic limits of nation states" and realize their potential to "use the world's resources with maximum efficiency...
...entire, awful delusion. I've no desire to make a rational, scholarly demonstration of this. I hope that humans will make some portion of this effort for themselves, take into account the full seriousness of the occupations of their lives, and act not in accordance with either false archaic moral high commands or cynical manipulation, both of which are in the air like smog, but in accordance with the world's possibilities, with what people can do, can make of these bodies so excellent for loving, exploring, and dying a more fitting death than the nuclear, the explosive, the incendiary...
...Court could rule on whether or not the two statutes were violations of Constitutional rights, the state legislature voted to liberalize the laws anyway, and Baird had triumphed. John Lindsay wrote him, "I certainly agree with you that the statute under which you were arrested is an obsolete and archaic law. I respect your courage and your concern in forcing a test of the statute." And on May 15, 1966, a year to the day after he had been arrested, the New York Senate appointed him to the joint legislative committee on Health and Mental Hygiene, the body responsible...
...contacted Baird, presented him with a petition signed by 679 Boston University students, and invited him to wage his next battle in Massachusetts. He came here in April, and promptly set his sights on the "Crimes Against Chastity" passage in the State Constitution, which he calls "among the most archaic, reactionary, and dangerous of any state law in the country...
...world's archaic maze of patent laws and procedures has long been a major nuisance to international-minded businessmen, who insist that it inhibits the global spread of patent benefits through new technology, new industry and expanded markets. Last week delegates from 22 major countries-including the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union, which account for 80% of the world's patent applications-reached preliminary agreement in Geneva on some overdue reforms...