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Usage for atavistic


Fellow Nigerians, if you missed last week's Pendulum you've missed something atavistic. Titled 'How They Catch Monkeys in Brazil', the article generated so much controversy all through the week.

What is really holding Boston public school children back is the bloated Court Street bureaucracy, a rubber-stamp school committee, incompetent principals repeatedly running schools into the ground with no repercussions, atavistic managerial ideology, ...

Thus, it has far more in common with, say, the "Nest" learning thermostat—to which it bears a curious resemblance— than IKEA's atavistic novelty point-and-shoot: Zou writes that "with this project, I hoped to bring about a refreshing new product ...

Some will think this gifted, flawed president faces in 2012 an opposition so atavistic that the psychology in all this, his and the nation's, is irrelevant.

... pipes to animal-shaped planters to onion soup bowls for her tall, misshapen totems, which are made from found and/or rebuilt objects: But underneath the seeming randomness of her collection of objects, an instinctual logic waits - an atavistic like ...


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