Word: backwardation
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...cause for concern to Hilton Head Island [Jan. 26], but it's a nightmare to Bluffton, only two miles from the plant site. As I see this village about to be engulfed by a huge industrial complex, I must register my protest against this giant leap backward...
Democrats seem to be looking wistfully backward rather than hopefully forward. The Miami Beach dinner honored Former President Harry Truman. Another dinner was held in New York to pay tribute to Adlai Stevenson, who would have been 70 years old last week...
Public Character. Patton views itself as "a salute to a rebel." The line encapsulates the film's faults. Patton was starved for the superpatriotic rations of the 19th century. It was not necessarily an ignoble hunger, but one can no more rebel backward than one can fall up. The movie's vision blurs the man and, incidentally, the just war around...
When the inquest was over, Kennedy chose to look ahead, not backward. He returned to Washington with his wife Joan and said that he would accompany her to New York this week, where she will have her tonsils removed. He is eager to resume his senatorial duties, and plans a trip to Dublin for a speech at Trinity College. He expects to kick off his campaign for re-election to the Senate at a dinner on Feb. 22, his 38th birthday...
...almost certainly oppose any sizable expansion by merger. At the same time, Du Font's ability to grow from within is checked by its management philosophy. Because the company does not believe in competing with customers, it rules out any major "forward integration" into finished goods like textiles. "Backward integration" into oil and the raw materials that it converts into chemicals has not seemed profitable enough...