Word: backwardation
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Reforms. At home Bhutto has made some important reforms, including nationalizing the coal mines, reducing large landholdings, and improving the country's backward educational system. At the same time, he has been careful not to alienate the armed forces. Military expenses make up 56% of Pakistan's budget, and have contributed heavily to inflation; retail prices have risen nearly 30% in the past 14 months...
...hand," but such excess hardly justifies the end of aid to the Boston City Hospital, a 700-bed central Boston facility that may have to reduce its patient capacity by almost a third. These cuts and cuts for basic research in the health sciences only demonstrate Nixon's backward tendencies...
...Lone Ranger's genealogy. He sees ads for Buster Keaton festivals and even for Ozymandian musicals like Grease, celebrating the vanished glories of '50s rock 'n' roll. The stranger pushes on; nostalgia-at preposterous prices-peers at him from shop windows. Fashion bends backward with shaped suits and long skirts, wide-brimmed hats, ubiquitous denims and saddle shoes. He has, alas, missed miniskirts and hot pants. He is just in time to see almost all women in long pants. Well, why not? But men in high heels...
...floor, also has estate in Southampton, Long Island. Throws jet-set parties, has entertained Lady Sarah Churchill Russell as well as Mick Jagger. Over the years has composed several hit songs (Don't Play That Song, Sweet Sixteen, Wild, Wild Young Men) under the name Nugetre-Ertegun spelled backward...
...enough of turning Vonnegut into literary scholarship. Space Daisy would do great service to a deserving writer if she filmed The Vonnegut Statement. She could borrow the Slaughterhouse-Five technique of running the film backward (the bombers suck up their bombs which regress to factory parts and finally harmless ores) and so rebury the "objective correlatives" and "eschatological imperatives" in the uncomplicated plea sures and meanings of the original novels...