Word: archaicisms
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...illustrates another corporate-welfare story that TIME encountered repeatedly. After failing to keep a facility up to date, a company claims a plant is "archaic" and threatens to close it unless government officials come up with incentives to help pay for modernization. That is what happened in Louisville, Ky., where a much larger conglomerate, General Electric Co., said that to meet profit goals, its plant had to be modernized--with taxpayer dollars. This from a company that appears at the top of the lists of the "best managed" corporations in America, whose revenue last year reached $91 billion and whose...
...relic of the early years of the shop remains, though: an archaic electronic eggbeater, now yellowed, that Tahmili bought for $3 at a garage sale...
Surviving members of the Romanov family--who had come from addresses as diverse as Paris; Oakland, Calif.; New South Wales; and East Sussex--kept a low profile. Those who spoke Russian did so in an archaic St. Petersburg accent that has all but disappeared. Some, such as the mayor of Palm Beach, Fla., Paul Ilinsky, never learned the language. They were restrained in their comments on Nicholas and made no claim to any stake in Russia's political future...
Other more archaic Class Day traditions have been discarded along with the circus elephants and clowns in favor of ones more suited to students...
...archaic and grossly illequipped facility badly in need of a major renovation. Even with the addition of several new state-of-the-art treadmills and stairmasters last fall with its antedivulian and rusty weights and general "ratty" aura, it remains a dilapidated and wholly inadequate facility for students not affiliated with a varsity sports team. Opening two hours early will do little to calm the long waits students experience for court space and free weights--nor will it address the shortage of modern equipment. And the QRAC still does not open until noon...