Nassau remains technologically primitive; many county workers have no e-mail or voice mail and Nassau is just now doing its first property tax reassessment in 70 years.
Temporarily they all lived under very primitive conditions; German workers lived in cellars during those days, and six or eight people were often quartered in a small basement room.
That's not how the AK-47 was constructed in Russia's primitive assembly plants by workers who no doubt consumed more vodka than was good for them.
The living conditions for aid workers are primitive, with little privacy, no fresh fruits or vegetables, and temperatures ranging from freezing at night to a hundred and twenty degrees during the day.
"The sales process was primitive: we found 15 workers sharing one telephone and one computer at some of the sales offices," says Trevor Matthews, president of Manulife Japan, which has spent $15m in the past two years to improve its infrastructure and retrain staff.
Before Daewoo completed its new GM-designed, $425-million plant, which is about 20% automated, its factory was so primitive that assembly line workers pushed cars along by hand.
Eugene Andolsek, whose luminous, vividly colored abstract drawings are on view at American Primitive, was an office worker plagued by fear that he was about to be fired, although he never was.
