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Of course not: Whatever the ultimate sources of the crisis in Asia, the immediate cause of these slumps is a collapse in that good old-fashioned macroeconomic variable, aggregate demand.
Critics revel in his elegant deflation of bunk theories, finding in his work "qualities in increasingly short supply in academic circles: old-fashioned moral rigor and plain old common sense" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some regret that Rosenbaum does not proffer his own theory clarifying the mysterious origins of Hitler's evil.
For whatever reason, phrases such as pushing up daisies, breathed his last, is no more, gone to a better world , etc. sound decidedly old-fashioned these days.
I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.
Most polling places use one of three computer-based technologies: punch cards, optical scans , or electronic recording . (Less than one-fifth of the electorate uses old-fashioned mechanical lever machines , which aren't even being made anymore.)