Word: archaicism
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...school's administration was judged to be the least responsive of any Top 20 school. One 1994 graduate called Harvard an "archaic dinosaur...
...more than that. Suwa had uncovered nothing less than a new chapter in the history of human evolution. He and his colleagues report in the current , Nature that the archaic molar, along with other fossils they found in the area on expeditions in 1992 and 1993, belong to a previously unknown species. This diminutive, humanlike creature walked the earth some 4.4 million years ago -- half a million years earlier than the oldest human ancestors ever identified. That stretches our family tree back almost to the era when humans and apes branched off from a single ancestor. In fact, says University...
...been able to manage costs during the strike because our temporary workers are not subject to the union's archaic work rules and restrictive job practices. In our talks with the union, we are trying to achieve the same level of flexibility in work assignments of employees represented by Local...
There is something valiant if archaic about Clinton's trying to resurrect activist government. Delivering the goods is far more difficult today. Government is broke. And the issue is not a bathhouse that can be built for a few hundred thousand dollars but a health-care entitlement that could cost trillions...
...when Brown received several dozen questions from the two Senators; by April 20 the number had exceeded 100 and ranged from travel in Azerbaijan (he has never been there) to concern about his dropping a requirement that Peace Corps volunteers be instructed in the menace of communism (the archaic provision was no longer being observed). He was also asked whether he had thrown any objects, "including human feces," at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Brown was at the suit-and-tie end of the antiwar movement and was inside the convention handling Senator Eugene McCarthy's delegates, nowhere near the Yippies...