Word: archaicism
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...Only an official overreaction to non-violent protest (a Birmingham, an Amritsar) can work in the demonstrators' favor. Has nonviolence become an archaic irrelevance? Maybe. But it does have a good historical record of succeeding where violence fails, where violence merely begets further violence, in the same fatal way that dictators beget revolutions that beget more dictators. If the demonstrators are to succeed, they would do best to adopt the non-violent methods of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. But there is, as yet, no one leader or organization capable of disciplining the ragtag, centrifugal anti-globalist demonstrators...
...horse is out of the barn,” Kaprielian said. “It is not an automatic right of a non-profit that an 1830 statute would not be tinkered with. I would solidly count [the 1830 exemption law] as an archaic statute...
...more governments start to think along such lines, Washington risks looking like an outlier. When the U.S. asserts a self-centered policy on, say, missile defense or global warming, it is speaking a language that many others now consider archaic. (Not all: remember China.) In fact, even in America, the old ways of thinking about foreign policy are visibly under threat. It is American-led NGOs who have argued loudest for humanitarian intervention and for elevating the environment into an issue of foreign policy. Perhaps most interestingly, 25 years of mass immigration to the U.S. - the bulk of it from...
...Rubin-Summers treasury team will long be remembered as a really imaginative and creative,” Rogoff says. Together, the two introduced the inflation index as a measure of the country’s economic health and engineered “mundane and archaic ways of raising money, reducing debt and lowering interest costs. They really ruled the roost in the Clinton administration...
...Steve Stockman, a U2 biographer and Dublin resident, says the band had grown up in an "archaic Catholic country that was very sheltered from the outside world" in the 1970s. For that reason, "their first two albums were about themselves...