Here, Paris has three of its last four great anachronisms - the Territoires d'Outre-Mer (Overseas Territories).

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Focus group obsessions have led to populist policies that quickly become irrelevant anachronisms.

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Novelists will be able to scrub away the little anachronisms that can make even a recently published story feel dated.

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The ring fence was one of those anachronisms from the early days in the capitalization of Russia, when folks were still just a bit queasy about foreigners taking over the nation's patrimony.

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And it is because of all of these forces, you know, whether they're intellectual history and sort of anachronisms or whether it's the mainstream media and political correctness run amok or academia.

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Though he has had some interest from overseas, his inquiries typically come from wealthy types looking for a unique place to call home--or members of the Society for Creative Anachronisms , a medieval reenactment group.

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Big Data also has the power to shift social norms and perhaps even transform society by sweeping away all the anachronisms of the analog era, such as sexism and class distinctions, and replace them with something entirely new.

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Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.

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