Word: archaice
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Paul has streamlined many of the baroque papal ceremonies and abolished the archaic privileges of Rome's Black Nobility. He has not only internationalized the Curia but also has brought about the most sweeping reform in that musty bureaucracy since 1588, by abolishing a number of useless offices, limiting appointments to five-year terms and providing the church with a kind of executive prime minister in the form of the Vatican's Secretary of State...
...homes a year would sharply increase the already serious inflation in construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...
...ARCHAIC laws and institutions are often dangerous-a truism that Americans are rediscovering in a rather special sense during the 1968 presidential campaign. They are doing so with the help of George Wallace. The Alabamian is gaining so many votes, says one happy Southern Congressman, that he is now as strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea...
Impossible? No, but highly improbable. And yet there is an uneasy feeling that none of these speculations can be totally dismissed. The American electoral system is so archaic and complex that, in uncertain times, it is bound to stimulate fantasy and even fear...
Battleships are decidedly old-fashioned in a nuclear age, but in a limited war like the one in Viet Nam, strange or archaic weapons sometimes do the most effective job. Within the 23-mile range of the New Jersey's guns are 60% of the North Vietnamese targets now hit by bombers, and the ship requires no garrison to protect its perimeter. The 25-year-old New Jersey was brought out of mothballs once before, for the limited war in Korea, and took part in the siege of Wonsan. The ship is a veteran of the South China...