Word: throwback
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...face, the plan and Summers’ expectation once again seem a throwback. When CID was founded, it was given seed money by the provost’s office for its first four years. According to both Pagett and Sachs, there was an expectation that fundraising would increase the center’s endowment and give CID a more solid foundation...
...place time forgot. The train yards, the vintage Soviet equipment, the windswept platform and the concrete stationhouse slowly crumble to dust. The physical plant is a throwback. So too is the human element. There are interminable delays for border formalities, with uniformed troops surrounding the train and sealing it off, big shot officers with visored caps and polished boots tramping from compartment to compartment, demanding visas, passports, papers, documents. They are stamping, stamping, stamping with boots and rubber stamps. Then there is the waiting while the official party repeats this process in each and every compartment in each and every...
...minors drew 38.8 million fans, the largest total since 1949. This season could be a record breaker as minor-league owners, seeing profits in a business that had stagnated for decades, have opened new stadiums and offered every conceivable promotion to attract fans. Indeed, the showmanship is a throwback to the days of Bill Veeck, the legendary, maverick big-league owner who once sent a midget to bat. The St. Paul Saints, owned by Veeck's son Mike, gave out inflatable bats, sponsored by the maker of Viagra, to every man over 21. In Nashville, Tenn., 15 nuns opened...
...score-line looked vintage 1974: Germany advances to the semifinals 1-0, winning with a headed goal from a free kick. How predictable. Yet this game was not at all a throwback. If Korea and Japan announced their arrival to big-time football in this World Cup, the U.S., even in losing to Germany, adamantly staked its claim as a global power. "It's been incredible," said U.S. goalie Brad Friedel, who played sensationally. "We have had a great ride. The satisfying thing is we can go home knowing that we probably could have gone a little further." Added coach...
...Rice even suggested in 1999 that U.S. policy should seek to "contain" and "quarantine" Russia. "The President and Condi didn't want anything to do with Russia when they came in," says a former top aide to the first President Bush. "They thought they knew who Putin was--a throwback to the old days--and they had no interest in finding out if they were right...