"Browned off" with transport duties, however, he sought reassignment to fighters and before long was able to effect a transfer to No. 80 Squadron, flying Gloster Gladiator biplanes, a type that was obsolescent well before the war began.
It showed that even with treatment methods that are already obsolescent, near-normal glycemic control was often possible when necessary resources were provided.
Two partisans of the thesis, Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker, acknowledged in an opinion article in the Sunday Review last December that the idea that war was obsolescent might seem preposterously utopian.
Obsolescent rules: Sticklers insist on many usages that are now too late to save.
The idea that war is obsolescent may seem preposterously utopian.
At the same time, it attacks the notion that Marxism is obsolescent, calls for more "ideological work" to inculcate an innovative spirit and aims to buttress the party's continued monopoly on power through "system innovation".
The price of oil has dropped to the point that old approaches and operations -- such as Arctic drilling and controversial pipelines -- make no sense and are obsolescent in the face to new competitive investment in alternatives.
They come down when they are obsolescent in 30-40 years. 30-40 years
This week's Free exchange column highlights research by David Autor at MIT that suggests that is an obsolescent view of the production function:A firm's challenge is to decide how to allocate... between capital and workers of varying skills, according to their respective comparative advantages.
It offered a vivid snapshot of what Washington looked like when clueless ancien-régime conservatives were feebly clinging to their last levers of power, blissfully oblivious to the new America that was crashing down on their heads and reducing their antics to a sideshow as ridiculous as it was obsolescent.
Europe and Canada have lost all stomach for this mission that is now promoted primarily in terms of "saving NATO" for future (and obsolescent) "out of area" struggles in a world in which Western strategic preferences can no longer predominate.
