Word: remnant
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...Massachusetts State Legislature's imminent attempt to repeal the ban on buying liquor on Sundays is a long overdue move to repeal an obsolete and nonsensical law. Sunday "Blue Laws"--a remnant of Massachusetts' Puritan history--currently allow the sale of liquor on Sundays only within a 10-mile radius of the New Hampshire border and for six weeks during the holiday season...
...this magnitude. The millennium clock keeps ticking. There is nothing we can do." But he has a few recommendations anyhow: buy gold and grain; quit your job; and find a remote cabin safe from the rioting hordes. He also recommends a two-year subscription (price: $225) to his newsletter, Remnant Review, an offer that appears to reflect a faith that, if nothing else, the mail will keep operating through 2000. As a subscriber incentive he promises "my report on 15 stocks which stand to benefit from this crisis...
Prints and Privileges, although suggestive of broader art historical themes, is essentially a show about details. Each group of prints is the remnant, the souvenir, which represents a story of interaction between artists and publishers and artists with each other...
...president of the African National Congress, Mandela led a protracted battle against the apartheid regime of South Africa, an ugly remnant of colonial imperialism. Today Harvard honors him for his personal sacrifices in the name of freedom--among them the 27 years he spent imprisoned. The eventual success of his efforts is a testament to the fire of his determination, the strength of his character and the justice of his cause...
Central Square is in many ways a remnant of an earlier age--a time when people lived in vibrant neighborhoods organized on a human scale. It has been a community for generations of immigrants and working people and a commercial district served by small businesses whose owners lived in the community and were a integral part...