Word: old-hat
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There are only three Latin American leaders with any sort of audience outside their own country: Fidel Castro, but he has somehow become slightly old-hat, either as a menace or an inspiration; Luis Echeverria of Mexico, presiding over a dynamic entrepreneurial economy while talking a medium-left, aggressively Third World line; and one South American, the impressive Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela. Perez heads one of the only two working democracies in South America (Colombia is the other), and he has oil, 2.4 million bbl. a day. He is not self-righteous about his country's democracy...
Some herbs have undisputed medicinal value. As Dorothy Hall points out in The Book of Herbs (Scribners; $7.95), to be published next month, "some of our old grandmothers' recipes are proving to be not so old-hat after all." For example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and sore throats, still sells briskly. Sage and mint teas, to name only two, are widely used to treat colds; and aspirin is made from salicylic acid, the essential chemical in willow bark, known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what...
...old Japanese definition of "recession"-anything less than 10% annual growth-is now old-hat. Japan is suffering from an unmistakable, deliberately engineered recession, the first step in what Deputy Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda calls a "long and traumatic" transition "to an era of low, stabilized growth...
...very well Hugh Sidey expressed my sentiments about the old-hat politicking of President Ford during his recent campaign tour! I'm the same age as Mr. Ford, and I can't believe that he still wears the same dated political garment worn during our college years. It's embarrassing, too, that he asked the nation in another outmoded, unscientific piece of advice to clean our plates, and then spent thousands on a dumb campaign. Especially bad, too, was his exhorting the American people to give blanket support to the Republicans. He should have devoted that time...
...timely subject for a probing interview in a women's magazine, was questioned ever so gently by an old friend and sometime associate, Buzz Farber. In fact, only eight of the 23 contributors are women. Even a solid advice article on how women can protect themselves from VD is written by a man. Two other articles are clearly directed toward women, one on the aphrodisiac aspects of smell and the other on male sexual fantasies. The first is old-hat, the second a bit sick...