Word: backwardation
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Deftly Gonzalez needled his state-proud colleagues for borrowing the first of the bills-which would, in effect, permit school boards to assign pupils on a racial basis-from "lesser states." "Texas had to import foreign-made provisions from such backward entities as South Carolina," he cried. "Why is it that you are so poverty-stricken?" And time and again he warned his colleagues of the ultimate perils of segregation: "It may be some can chloroform their conscience. But if we fear long enough,, we hate, and if we hate long enough, we fight...
...Henneberg and his brother Jacek made their way to the West, determined to become architects in the free world. Their father Wilhelm, vice president of the Polish Architectural Society, stayed behind, and in the period of increasing Russian influence on Polish artistic life was ordered to conform to backward Moscow-style architecture or not work...
...delightful in music, story, staging and orchestral playing. The plot concerns a young man on his wedding night, whose troubles are due more to ignorance than lack of cooperation by his bride. The cast was excellent: Elaine Freybler was a coy but charming bride, Robert Corbright was a properly backward bridegroom, and Ronald Gerbrands added spice as the tutor. This is a piece that shouldn't be missed...
...building, he appeared on the roof-a tall, handsome man with greying hair. While passers-by stopped to watch in horror and some screamed. "Beware, khawaga [foreigner]," Norman removed his watch and sunglasses, laid them on the parapet. Turning his back to the street, he moved three steps backward, dropped to instant death on the pavement...
A.D.L.'s ability to revolutionize backward economies is based on 70 years of practical experience. Started in 1886 by the late Arthur D. Little, a chemistry student who left M.I.T. before graduation when he ran out of money, the organization has 450 topnotch researchers (out of a total 900 employees), can field a team of experts in everything from banking, law and engineering to outer space...