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...factory still makes grain harvesters that no one wants. The clunkers lose up to 15% of the grain as they pound rich topsoil into brick-hard earth. Yet Yeltsin visited the plant last summer and personally guaranteed tens of millions of rubles in state credits to keep the communist relic afloat...
...cocky, and a great hit with the students; he played to them with a televisable glibness and catered to their blank, TV-scoured brains by dismissing on their behalf the full canon of Western masterpieces, every one of them (except Wuthering Heights and the autobiography of Frederick Douglass) a relic of centuries of white male oppression, to be touched as gingerly as radioactive garbage." To undermine Brent's growing authority, Alf has an affair with Brent's wife. And in a bold move, Brent is having an affair with Alf's wife...
Competition from low-cost, entrepreneurial private schools will pressure public institutions to abandon such inefficiencies as the tenure system. They will also give up the 10-month school year, a relic of the time when students had to do farm work in summertime. Year-round schooling is a more efficient use of resources; summer breaks tend to make the first and last months of the term virtually useless anyway...
America isn't afraid of "the Vietnamese" anymore--we now understand that the war may have had as much to do with American politicians as with Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. Kissinger sounded like a relic, pushing a party line we're all embarrassed to hear...
...unusual for a modern construction excavation to yield an interesting archaeological relic or two, but this one was a treasure. The site was the southern tip of Manhattan, where workers last summer began preparing the foundation for a $276 million, 34-story federal office tower and pavilion. Twenty feet below the surface, the diggers uncovered a few human skeletons, then a few more -- and then more still. Archaeologists quickly found that this was no commonplace graveyard but one that early colonial maps called the "Negros Burial Ground," the interment site, from 1710 to 1790, of untold numbers of African slaves...