Word: archaicisms
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...Department of Asian Art at the Sackler Museum is one of the largest in Harvard University Art Museums and includes over 18,700 works of art. The collections include archaic jades and a collection of paintings that includes 30 masterworks. The collection also includes extensive Korean art holdings as well as Thai and other Southeast Asian illuminated manuscripts...
...Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That policy has not only failed to dislodge Castro but also looks archaic alongside Washington's commercial ties to such communist regimes as China and Vietnam...
...process, two of the pledges are required to enter a cage-like apparatus, which dates back to the 17th century and resembles a medieval torture device, and reveal their deepest, darkest secrets. And as an attempt to settle an irreconcilable dispute between two members there is a duel using archaic pistols. Apparently this is a common method of settling intra-Skulls disputes, since in the movie there is actually a statute regarding duels in the Skulls' rule book. These practices are an attempt to recreate the bygone days of yore when the hallowed halls of academia were available solely...
Many argue that the law, set up when cable TV was in its infancy and the Internet was unheard of, is archaic, as newspapers now face enough competition from alternative news outlets to keep them honest - and often can't compete with the Web and nightly news, let alone another paper. Like many JOAs, the Chronicle and Examiner agreement preceded the Newspaper Preservation Act - it started in 1965 - and was due to continue until 2005. The Chronicle prints in the morning, while the Examiner remained an afternoon paper. But in this age of continually updated headlines available on your desktop...
...they got rid of the penalties, which restricted the earning power of older Americans by taking portions of their Social Security checks after they'd passed an annual earnings limit. The repeal was something of a no-brainer, says TIME financial writer Daniel Kadlec, both economically and politically. "This archaic regulation was particularly helpful in postwar periods, when GIs were coming home and looking for work," says Kadlec. "The government didn't want the jobs taken up by 'old' people." But now that the nation is rife with jobs, there's really no reason to penalize productive members of society...