Word: archaicisms
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...telephony is even making inroads into the wireless industry. For now, most hospitals ban cell-phone use in patient areas because the phones can produce electromagnetic radiation that interferes with hospital monitors. That has forced patients and nurses to rely on archaic paging systems. Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., recently decided to begin using a voice-over-IP-enabled device from Symbol Technologies of Holtsville, N.Y., on wireless networks in its three hospitals. The device, which combines PDA functions with voice, offers several benefits: it doesn't suffer from interference, as cell phones do; it lets patients connect directly...
...laziness, or call it efficiency, but a website on which students could carry out these time-consuming necessities from the comfort of their dorms would work wonders for the already-hectic schedules of the term’s first weeks. One imagines that the current system’s archaic array of hand-filled forms and in-person visits is not all that different from the way scholars cleared their studies with the dons at Medieval Cambridge and Oxford; the transition to online registration seems almost less a matter of joining the twenty-first century than of leaving the fourteenth...
...combination of the economic carrot and the stick of repressive one-party rule proved insufficient to build lasting support for Chiang's rule. The nationalist era demonstrates how, by not involving the people in the way they are governed and by denying political pluralism, regimes easily become archaic and disconnected from their citizens, with no means of reinvigorating themselves...
...fact that I was never really a part of the group—my nun’s single kept me cloistered up the hall or a flight down. All I wanted was a space I could share with my blockmates. But thank goodness Harvard’s archaic system kept me from giving in to temptation: living together, in closer proximity to each others’ coffee breath, messy rooms, and unorthodox showering habits, it’s possible that my blockmates and I would have become wildly attracted to each other and engaged in large blocking group orgies?...
Oddly, Narcissus has no such open command of his own people. Their archaic system demands the people’s support for war, but Narcissus was unable to convince them other than by exaggerating the threat of an imminent Scythian invasion. No matter that any invaders would first need to overcome the border tribes of their own territory, then the Macedonians, then the mountains. Indeed, some Athenians had immediately panicked and rushed to defend the Long Walls...