Word: archaicism
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...costs of the merger were wildly miscalculated, and Penn Central is still trying to devise a computer-based information system to keep managers up-to-date on all of its activities. It also suffers from an archaic labor contract, under which an engineer is paid for a day's work for every 100 miles that he travels; if he rides the high-speed Metroliner, for example, he gets 41 days' pay ($111) for each round trip from Washington to New York. The railroad chiefs complain that they cannot afford to buy enough costly new passenger cars...
...responsive. In an unprecedented TV address after the June confrontation, he sided withthe demonstrators. He was under stiff pressure to call in army troops when the police proved inadequate. Instead, Tito said the students were right in their demands for eliminating employment discrimination against youth, bureaucratic factory management, and archaic academic practices. He also proposed reforms and laws to institute these intentions...
McDermott helped organize a staff protest two years ago over the hospital's"antiquated physical plant, archaic administrative structure, and inadequate budget." He said the commission ignored the great progress which followed his protest: $6 million was spent on renovation, plans were made for a whole new city hospital, and the budget was almost doubled. Sackett said the increased funds paid for improvements which "have resulted in an almost total reversal of the previously bleak conditions...
...make convention do the work of invention. They are rewriting the 19th century novel without meaning to. In The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles rewrites the 19th century novel and means every word of it. But his is a resourceful and penetrating talent at work on that archaic form. The result is more truly inventive and contemporary than a whole shelf of campus comings-of-age or suburban wife-swapping sagas...
...mind, a group of undergraduates and teaching fellows created Harvard New College. We hoped to preserve the spirit of learning that emerged during the strike by exploring supplements and alternatives to traditional undergraduate education. We hoped that people would join us and help pressure Harvard into reforming its drastically archaic educational system...