(This theme underlies the title of Krugman s classic 1990 book The Age of Diminished Expectations. )

The word can be an adjective (a classic car) or a noun (a classic of English literature).

Chinese literature has a long past the earliest classic work in Chinese, the I Ching or Book of Changes dates to around 1000 BC.

Fadil was a classic manipulator.

Policing is a classic example.

And I had a Mac Classic. And it's a little box.

The European Union offers a classic illustration of this point.

Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Classic Type.

The classic philosophical enquiry into what a work of art is.

Central banks are the classic example.

This is the classic HUMINT source.

In fact, 50 years ago, in his classic book Social Theory and Social Structure, the late sociologist Robert K. Merton described the results of a case study of influential people in a typical American town, Rovere, New Jersey.

First published in 1959, this is a classic of New Zealand history.

This is a classic example of what I call block thinking, which seems to have made huge strides in Europe in recent years. John Bowen s recent book Why the French Don t Like Headscarves documents this shift.

Classic inter State wars have virtually ended.

The iPod classic was simply called the iPod until the sixth generation, when classic was added to the name because other designs were also available an example of a retronym.

And they immediately said to me, Well you are describing a classic ritual.

Nationalism is the classic expression of thwarted democracy.

BERKELEY On my desk right now are reporter Timothy Noah s new book The Great Divergence America s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It and Milton and Rose Director Friedman s classic Free to Choose A Personal Statement.

A classic example is of two workers on an apparently boring production line in a factory.

True, some of it is classic McCarthyite red baiting.

It was a classic example of Chinese negotiating style firm on principle, flexible on specifics.

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But what if some travelers have a higher tolerance of risk, or just a more urgent need to travel, than others? John Stuart Mill, in his classic book On Liberty, considered a situation in which a man sets out to cross a bridge that we know is unsafe.

cctech, also known as the Classic Computers Discussion List , is an electronic mailing list about old computer technology, and is run by the Classic Computing organization.

At first glance, this looks like a classic case of a large country bullying a small country into submission.

The idea of harmony, for example, is a rich philosophical concept in classic Buddhism and Confucianism.

The sad case of the American consumer is a classic example of how this plays out.

The 1933 Conference looked like a classic detective novel in which every party had a reason to be a suspect.

In a sense if you want to think about it this is the classic batteries not included.

The Classic Car Club of America maintains that a car must be between 30 and 49 years old to be a classic, while cars between 50 and 99 fall into a pre antique class, and cars 100 years and older fall into the Antique Class.

But these were not the prions of classic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.

The following code is an example of the classic Hello World!

A classic example is James Hansen, a NASA climatologist pushing for 350 parts per million carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Initially a financial crisis, it morphed into a classic public debt crisis after governments stepped in to guarantee banks obligations.

A time for plotting to whack the chief of police, like in this classic scene from The Godfather.

Has Israel lost the remainder of its wisdom? Are we witnessing a classic case of sheer political stupidity?

If so, the obvious question is why China s future rulers are circulating a foreign classic on social revolution.

Rickroll was this bait and switch, really simple, classic bait and switch.

Some of the stories are just so classic, and yet so understandable.

By that standard, the classic doctrine of free speech is in crisis.

This lasted until around 900 AD, when the Classic Maya civilization collapsed.

This is a classic description of the herd behavior that George Soros has identified as financial markets dominant feature.

Over the years, the day of infamy has become a classic reference point for galvanizing patriotic sentiment in America.

But an episode from a classic Ukrainian cartoon series broke taboos around addressing human trafficking as early as 1973.