Word: outdatedness
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We are only now really beginning to feel that perestroika is a revolution. That is why some people are beginning to panic. They shout about anarchy; they predict chaos, war, total ruin and so on. They're intellectually unprepared for the kind of major changes that are objectively necessary. That...
But, as at least Mandela appears to understand, Buthelezi cannot be wished away. He has built up a solid constituency, though it is less representative than he would admit. Most of Inkatha's estimated 1.7 million members are Zulus residing in the KwaZulu homeland within Natal. And some of Buthelezi...
Only a few days earlier, the governor of Manchester's Strangeways Prison had pronounced it "the fastest-improving establishment in the country." Not for long. As if to mock that boast, most of the prison's 1,648 inmates went on a rampage last week to protest against overcrowding and...
Nye argues that the United States is not in decline, as Kennedy claimed in his 1987 best-seller The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, but is merely being judged by an unrealistic and outdated standard.
"We don't need to be bogged down by antiquarian exegesis of outdated mathematics, you geeks," returned a molecular biologist. "Those equations were discovered in, like, the 17th century. We study the present, not the nerdy doodlings of some longdecomposed apple-dropper."