Word: outdatedness
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ON FEBRUARY 13, Jimmy Carter was Mexico's boasting father; on Valentine's Day, he was its kneeling suitor. The supplicant posture of the latter is a harbinger of the recent change in U.S.-Mexican relations; the untrammeled paternalism of the former is now an outdated extreme.
On the other hand, the commission would consider the U.S.'s 1.4 million servicemen to be employed. They are not included in the labor force statistics now; this made sense when most servicemen were removed from the ranks of job seekers by the draft, but is outdated in the...
Until the 1920s, courts generally presumed that custody should go to the father as head of the family. Then, as ideas about the crucial role of the mother in child rearing took hold, courts switched to a presumption that the child belongs with the mother. Believers in joint custody now...
One innovative approach would be for multinationals to set up outposts in developing lands that would be 51% or more owned by local people or governments. Giving them a majority stake would diminish the danger of expropriation. Sperry has set up such joint ventures in many countries, and it has...
(10 of 12) has no antitank missiles, no armored helicopters and no modern battle tanks. Its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate-range missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Although China's navy is the world's third largest (in terms of manpower, not of...