Still, many gas producers are happy enough with the archaic pricing structure, particularly when oil prices are high.
Mr. Ivory found, he said, "a very early definition, 14th century, as lack of joy -- archaic, but it was just enough for me to use it".
Director Anne Bogart and her New York-based SITI Company return to the Getty to stage this rarely revived work, in a translation by Aaron Poochigian that cuts a decent enough compromise between archaic and accessible.
The dialogue is uniformly archaic, leaden almost ("I wish it right enough, sir," etc), as if a distinctive voice would itself be anachronistic.
Its archaic motto could be "What was good enough for me... " Maths and science have merely replaced Latin and Greek as the dogma of the academic establishment, for whom schools are no more than tributary outposts.
That would be enough to produce this 5% of those archaic genes being transferred," he said.
Small businesses face enough hurdles without bearing the added burden of archaic laws that essentially tax them on their profits and then tax them again when the owner dies.
A British woman who was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped by three men in Dubai has been prosecuted for drinking without a licence, throwing a spotlight on the United Arab Emirates' archaic legal system, which rights groups say does not do enough to protect victims of sexual assault.
Ultimately, that does nothing to fix the basic problem that our language has not evolved enough to speak about gender and sex without archaic terms and using a binary that essentializes aspects of sex and gender, and then imposes it on people.
It's bad enough that we have the death penalty, it's so archaic, but then to turn around and say, "No, we're not going to feed you," just out of pure meanness or something.
