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Homans stared at his watch for three minutes while Edelin stood reddened and contorted, with his neck twisted awkwardly backward...
...tough to the Conference Board, a group of businessmen meeting in Washington, Ford declared: "It seems to me that the Congress, individually or collectively, should not nitpick. If they do not agree, they ought to step up with a comprehensive alternative rather than to try to move in a backward...
Hard Life. And for all those achievements, for all China's gossamer promise of developing into one of the most prodigious markets of all time, the country today remains, as Chou likes to say, a poor, backward state. Despite the impressive statistics of economic performance (see chart page 24), China's $105 billion G.N.P. remains far below that of Italy, a country with roughly 7% of China's population of 800 million...
...mode of Agnes de Mille. Here are the strong, silent heroes who conquered the land, together with their deferential but spunky helpmeets, whose chief tasks were to bear children and get the vittles on the table. It is all sentimentally endearing, and it marks one giant step backward for the American musical...
...terms of education, the Navajo reservation is still one of the most backward in the country. "Ours is the first generation to have over 50 per cent with an eighth grade education," she says, emphasizing the figures, pausing to let their meaning sink in. "Ninety per cent of the students in my high school barely had a sixth grade reading level. Maybe 4 per cent went to college...