Word: archaically
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...Court could rule on whether or not the two statutes were violations of Constitutional rights, the state legislature voted to liberalize the laws anyway, and Baird had triumphed. John Lindsay wrote him, "I certainly agree with you that the statute under which you were arrested is an obsolete and archaic law. I respect your courage and your concern in forcing a test of the statute." And on May 15, 1966, a year to the day after he had been arrested, the New York Senate appointed him to the joint legislative committee on Health and Mental Hygiene, the body responsible...
...contacted Baird, presented him with a petition signed by 679 Boston University students, and invited him to wage his next battle in Massachusetts. He came here in April, and promptly set his sights on the "Crimes Against Chastity" passage in the State Constitution, which he calls "among the most archaic, reactionary, and dangerous of any state law in the country...
...world's archaic maze of patent laws and procedures has long been a major nuisance to international-minded businessmen, who insist that it inhibits the global spread of patent benefits through new technology, new industry and expanded markets. Last week delegates from 22 major countries-including the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union, which account for 80% of the world's patent applications-reached preliminary agreement in Geneva on some overdue reforms...
Along with poverty, ignorance and moral strictures against birth control, the unpredictability of human sexual practices makes unwanted pregnancy inevitable. The way to deal with the problem forthrightly is on terms that permit the individual, guided by conscience and intelligence, to make a choice unhampered by archaic and hypocritical concepts and statutes...
...Real Husk. The Communists' confusion over Marx began when the Lenins and Mao Tse-tungs started stretching his maxims to fit largely agrarian societies. Then, too, Marx became archaic when it became evident that 1) England, Germany and the other advanced industrial nations had avoided revolution; 2) capitalism, partly in response to Marx's ideas, had showed itself vital enough to change with the times into something that Marx would hardly have recognized; and 3) workers in the West were increasingly sharing in the fruits of capitalist prosperity. Not until recently did Europe's Communists realize that...