• Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa suggested reviewing Japan's primitive policy on arms exports last Tuesday.

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  • Relatively primitive trench warfare on the Confederacy's northern front in Virginia presaged the slaughter of trench warfare on the Somme and at Passchendaele.

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  • He lets the film speak for itself, and so it does -- of humanity as well as primitive rage and horror on both sides of the battle.

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  • Competitors see an opportunity to challenge Craigslist because it insists on retaining its primitive website, largely unchanged since the early 2000s.

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  • The manufacturing processes remained primitive and continued to rely on the use of chlorine washes which increased the likelihood of contamination.

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  • But as nuclear and missile technology has proliferated in the post-Cold War period, and more technologically primitive countries get their hands on missiles and limited nuclear capabilities, the threat of an EMP attack as become far more acute.

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  • He said the study has also confirmed that the bristles on this "rather primitive flesh-eating dinosaur... really were feathers".

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  • Whatever the cause, this "urbanization of poverty" has resulted in the large-scale erection of primitive forms of shelter, either on public land or on private land owned by absentee landlords.

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  • Without these firms, hydrocarbons would largely stay in the ground or locked in the sea-bed, heavy manufacturing would be difficult to impossible, electricity and communications would be more episodic and primitive, and the list goes on.

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  • Its maker, a Dutch alchemist called Cornelius van Drebbel, is thought to have used a primitive oxygen-supply system, based on saltpetre, to prevent the crew from asphyxiating.

    ECONOMIST: The science of survival

  • Although these films did very well abroad, local critics worried that internationally directed projects drew on stereotypes of Ireland being primitive yet idyllic and the Irish being short-tempered drunkards.

    BBC: The evolution of Irish cinema

  • It was then that I saw that the settlement had been constructed on gradually descending levels separated by primitive stone-paved walkways.

    WSJ: Dan Fante on Silent, Ancient Corvara, Italy | Traveler's Tale

  • Japan's situation is even worse because its primitive capital markets make businesses far more dependent on bank debt than they are in any other advanced country.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Why would a burlap-suited guy in a primitive society, thousands of years from now on what used to be Hawaii, visualize the embodiment of pure evil in Victorian fashion?

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  • Consider that in the late 1990s when I wrote these predictions there was no Wikipedia, no social networks, no blogs, very primitive search engines that few people used, no usable language tools, very primitive and expensive mobile phones, and so on.

    FORBES: Ray Kurzweil Defends His 2009 Predictions

  • In primitive street markets, plenty of price discrimination goes on, through a mix of haggling and local knowledge.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus: They're watching you | The

  • An unknown number of hikers and campers may have weathered the Thursday night storm on the dozens of trails and isolated primitive camping sites in the most hard-hit western portion of the park, spokesman Carey Jones said Friday morning.

    CNN: Crews search Smoky Mountain wilderness after deadly storm

  • On Oct. 4, 1957, a primitive, 100-pound metal ball was sent hurtling into orbit around Earth, beeping back radio signals like taunts.

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  • Although a similarly "primitive" construction, the Tangaroa benefited from more recent research on ancient sailing techniques and had a broader sail, adjustable centerboards and a hardwood cabin.

    CNN: The Kon-Tiki: Crossing an ocean on balsa

  • They are faced with increasingly difficult physical circumstances: the food web is thinning out, many animals and plants have gone missing, their main food source a type of primitive grass is threatened, and they have to be on the lookout constantly for hostile animals, other less-evolved dinosaurs with more violent survival strategies.

    FORBES: Prototyping The Distant Future

  • When computers were the province of corporate programmers and youthful tinkerers he saw their possibilities for illuminating the lives of all of us, seizing on the first gropings by Xerox researchers who developed a primitive mouse and graphical interface, and perceiving in a flash there the chance for an epochal extension of the capabilities of everyone.

    FORBES: What Steve Jobs Really Gave Us: Joy

  • They hid a primitive computer in their shoes that could predict where a ball would land on a roulette wheel.

    CNN: The wave of wearable computers

  • My tastes evolved, from primitive through shallow to a kind of pseudo-sophistication that was long on the pseudo and short on any clue to what riches the movies could offer.

    WSJ: The Hobbit | A Middling Middle-earth

  • The spacecraft's data indicates the asteroid has a very primitive surface - rather like the chondritic meteorites that are sometimes picked up on Earth and which are assumed to have come from bodies that experienced no melting or differentiation.

    BBC: A fleeting encounter with an 'inbetweener'

  • On the shores of the lake, I found three bedraggled yurts, a kind of primitive motel, waiting for guests.

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