Word: archaicism
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...opposes this proposal, even though the Commission's recommend dations would be advisory only. The reason is obvious. GM does not want independent and respected experts examining what it has done and what it could be doing for society. It does not wish to have its closed and archaic decision-making processes exposed and challenged...
...postal strike to a volcano. In its sudden fury, the stoppage that began last week was indeed cataclysmic, but labor trouble has been only one of the latent threats to the mail service. The Post Office Department has long suffered from deteriorating facilities, a chaotic financing method and archaic approaches to both moving mail and administering the organization...
Under-the-Table Pay. The newly organized pro circuit is the creation of ABC-TV and Bob Beattie, former coach of the U.S. ski team, who sees it as one alternative to the "shamateurism" that plagues skiing. The problem stems from the archaic Olympic Committee rule, which states that an amateur athlete may not spend more than six weeks a year pursuing his sport. For skiers like Kidd-and indeed athletes in any sport -the rule is patently ridiculous. "In order to compete at the top nowadays," explains Kidd, "you have to spend at least ten months skiing." The amateur...
...teach moral lessons without being preachy. A new teacher, straining stolidly to be as hip as his students, is joshed into the realization that he will get along much better if he is just himself. Students petitioning for the replacement of an elderly teacher who is using an archaic teaching approach in a marriage-preparation course are gently prodded into more understanding of their teacher. A few episodes do deal with weightier stuff: the problems of a militant black youth involved with a middle-class black girl, the dilemma of a Mexican-American boy who balances his academic limitations against...
...head turned away from the piano, eyes closed, his melodic voice drifting into the microphone. There was Levon Helm on drums, delivering the amazingly steady, but unobtrusive, beat that drives The Band. His eyes, too. were closed his head turned to the microphone. There was Rick Danko playing his archaic Fender Precision bass. But, oh, how he played it. And his voice, so important to The Band's sound-twangy, country, but at the same time smooth. The sweat streamed down Danko's face, a face crossed by a myriad of expressions in the course of the evening. Only once...