Yet in dozens of tire and auto-repair shops an illuminated Santa or Frosty -- the same one as last year, exhausted and outdated a generation ago -- shines glumly since nobody gives tires or tuneups as a present.
It was the beginning of a Russian-influenced renaissance in North Korea's missile arsenal, which until then consisted mostly of outdated, early-generation Scuds, some of them purchased on the black market.
5. Open luxury Closed-off and monolithic brands are beginning to look less mysterious and more outdated; new generations in particular respond better to interactive brands that acknowledge their existence.
Conventional hiring methods worked for previous generations but these practices are becoming outdated as new generations penetrate the workforce.
His efforts to reform the National School's outdated curriculum inspired a generation of students who subsequently became the vanguard of modernist architecture in Brazil.
Overcoming the power crisis, for example, would require untangling a Gordian knot of inefficient, partially privatized distribution and generation companies, outdated pricing schemes and consumers' practice of not paying energy bills — all of which would mean taking on powerful vested interests.
The concerns now expressed by the UK in relation to meeting a 2015 deadline for the phasing out of the most polluting power sources have less to do with the ambition of EU targets and much more with the failure of the UK government to face the many different challenges posed by our reliance on outdated coal-fired power generation technology.
Today, that notion seems outdated, as a new generation of businesswomen feel freer to dress as they please.
Oz was an underground magazine with a circulation of 40,000 which aimed to challenge the "older generation's outdated beliefs and standards of behaviour and morality".
Although there were books, manuals, and plenty of magazines, going to libraries and bookstores was becoming outdated for the younger generation.
While nuclear power has shown time and again to be dangerous and expensive, replacing coal with natural gas only continues the outdated model of centralized generation -- failing to address urgent issues around inefficiency, reliability, and greenhouse gas emissions.
