Word: archaicism
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...society, we have not yet reached the point where this is possible. While our public culture exposes politically correct views of tolerance, all too often, people still privately harbor archaic ideas about sexual norms which restrict the opportunity for necessary communication about life-and-death health issues. If we are effectively to confront the danger to our community posed by these problems, we must begin with an open and honest discussion...
...stunned that experts continue to blame television and the media for playground massacres that involve youths and guns. Is the National Rifle Association so powerful in the U.S. that people are scared to admit that archaic gun laws are causing young children to be killed? Or is the government too concerned about losing votes because of America's obsession with weapons? America must know that as long as guns are easily available, killings will continue. JONATHAN GREEN Auckland, New Zealand...
Under Harvard's present system, tenure decisions are consigned to ad hoc committees of experts from outside the University. This archaic process excludes innovative scholarship, devalues teaching skills and drives young talent to other schools....Rudenstine should consider installing a tenure track. At the very least, he should abolish the ad hocs...
...most interesting e-mails I received had to do with the Sports section. One reader was puzzled by The Crimson's repeated use of the rather archaic term "cagers" in headlines about the basketball team. Why not "Hoops," he suggested, or "B-Ball?" (A few other readers I queried on the topic said that they had never heard the term "Cagers" used in any other place, but had come to expect that The Crimson was referring to basketball...
...shaped a radical restructuring of the team and in the process made it a key component in revitalizing Detroit, one of America's most distressed major cities. He first fired head coach Wayne Fontes and installed former San Diego Chargers coach Bobby Ross. He also revamped the Lions' archaic ticketing policy, bolstered the team's marketing campaign, launched a Website and started weekly radio and TV shows that air during the season. "We really needed a face-lift," he says. "We're in the entertainment business. It's all marketing and customer satisfaction...