Word: archaice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ardent Lover. In most other states, sex laws are still so archaic they would make Hester Prynne feel at home. Sev en years ago, the American Law Institute proposed a Model Penal Code that would eliminate traditional penalties for sexual relations between consenting adults in private. Connecticut, and to a degree Illinois, have followed the rec ommendations. Montana, Oregon and others are considering similar action...
...Will someone please tell me which doddering, bumbling generation, what archaic educational system, and whose capitalistic tax dollars managed to put those men up among the stars...
...sympathy for Spain's rebellious youth, the Prince declared that "the cult of the past must not be a brake on the evolution of a society that is changing with dizzying rapidity." Despite the obvious allusion to a need for reform and accommodation in Spain's archaic social structure, Franco smiled at the Prince throughout the speech...
Cleveland's great industries have lately made efforts to dump fewer noxious effluents into the Cuyahoga. If their record is still not good, the city's has been far worse. Whenever it rains hard, the archaic sanitary storm system floods the sewer mains, sending untreated household wastes into the river. Sometimes the old mains break, as recently happened on the Big Creek interceptor line. Each day for the past month, 25 million gallons of raw sewage have cascaded from a ruptured pipe, spilling a gray-green torrent into the Cuyahoga and thence into Lake Erie...
Even within the A.M.A., younger practitioners regard as archaic the association's attitude toward public health. Membership (currently 217,000) has declined in proportion to the total number of doctors, although the 100,000 nonmember physicians thereby forgo low-cost insurance plans and valuable research material. Many resent A.M.A.'s geriatric leadership: the average age in the ruling House of Delegates is 62. That body in turn controls the activities of AMPAC (American Medical Political Action Committee). Last year AMPAC doled out an estimated $2.6 million in political contributions to candidates who mirrored its conservative views...