Word: archaicism
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Much police frustration would vanish overnight if salaries rose by 50%-to what many union plumbers make. Police brains would sharpen immensely if every department in the country stopped requiring even the best-educated rookies to start out as foot patrolmen. Instead, the police ought to ease archaic seniority and allow college graduates to start as management trainees. Equally important, police duties should be drastically reduced and refined. Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other...
...trouble with ALG, as it is abbreviated, is that transplant patients apparently can never be weaned of it, and some cannot tolerate it for more than a few weeks or months. They develop severe allergic reactions to it. Besides, said Medawar, "ALG is conceptually an archaic substance. Injecting horse-serum derivatives into human beings violates our sense of the fitness of things." It was Medawar's work in the early 1950s, which explained why some skin grafts in mice are rejected and others not, that laid the foundation for all today's transplant surgery. And now the transplant...
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford took the opportunity to assail the electoral-college system as "outmoded and archaic," warning that Wallace's appearance on the ballot could throw the election into the House, where "the politicians" would choose the President. He favors instead the popular election of the President, but would preserve conventions if they were "overhauled a little" to ensure more equitable selection of delegates...
...gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor's lines to the Negro community atrophy and he continues to rule in the personalistic style of a benevolent Irish despot of the wards...
...freedoms and fulfillments is sweeping Communist, capitalist and ex-colonial nations alike. In spired by mass communications, tutored by the pioneering young, millions want more-and feel more frustrated when affluence, equality and education are too slowly achieved. In this heated situation, old institutions are too often archaic and unresponsive to change. Instead of plunging forward with history, the Kremlin fears the Czech disease of freedom. The Vatican is impelled to ban the pill. Congress rejects effective gun regulation. Whatever the issue or nation, something loosely called the "establishment" resists aspiration and innovation. The global result is growing impatience with...