Word: archaicism
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...CONTINUE to urge the College to abandon its archaic, aristocratic policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status--a biological accident--improves an applicant's chances of being admitted by almost three times...
...risk takers. Since East European currencies cannot be readily converted into dollars or other hard cash, Westerners must often take their profits in bartered goods, such as clothing or foodstuffs, which can be sold in other Western countries. At the same time, the area remains plagued by grasping bureaucrats, archaic trade rules and primitive roads, phone systems and factories. Says Jan Vanous, research director of Plan-Econ, a Washington-based consulting group that studies Eastern Europe: "Investing there is really for people who know what they are doing and have a strategic vision." Quite a few adventurous companies have followed...
Nothing wrong with that. The system for allocating research and treatment money in American medicine is archaic, chaotic and almost random anyway. Under the "Disease of the Month Club" syndrome, any disease that has in some way affected a Congressman or some relation gets special treatment. There is rough justice in this method of allocation because after a while Congressmen and their kin get to experience most of the medical tragedies that life has to offer. At the end of the day, therefore, funds tend to get allocated in a fairly proportionate...
...CONTINUE to urge the College to abandon its archaic, aristocratic policy of giving preference in admissions to children of alumni, or "legacies." Legacy status--a biological accident--improves an applicant's chances of being admitted by almost three times...
...R.S.V. goes its separate way too. Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original...