Word: backwardation
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...would be interested, Sukarno resumed, to observe material achievements in Communist countries, "where they have gone about this backward-they have started out to establish freedom from want and-" Once again he broke off, and this time a ripple of laughter ran through the 1,000 top-ranking Indonesian officials who made up the bulk of the audience...
...picture, as in the novel, the dramatic scalpel does not cut very deep. But there are vivid clinical scenes in hospital ward and peasant hovel, touching sequences of the young doctor's struggles with Auvergne's backward farmers, who prefer faith healers to doctors...
...Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co., General Foods Corp. and, since 1947, the World Bank). Garner's IFC starts with a fund of $78.4 million, hopes to prove that private enterprise in underdeveloped countries pays off, attract other investors who might normally be wary of investing in backward lands...
...executive salaries and bonuses to cost allowances on Government contracts, for hiring recently retired military generals "fresh from the opposite side of the desk" and giving them nebulous "advisory" positions. Said the report: "Companies whose business is so closely interwoven with the Military Es tablishment ought to lean over backward so that no suggestion of favoritism, influ ence, or 'old school tie' could be read into their conduct...
Even Worse Lot. Many of India's 8,000,000 Christians are indeed "poor and backward," i.e., untouchables. These humble folk hoped, by choosing Christianity, to win freedom from the yoke of caste, which confined them to such jobs as cleaning toilets and sweeping up after India's wandering sacred cows. During the days of the British raj, the untouchables were the best prospects of British missionaries. But Gandhi did much for them ("I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived," he said), and now discrimination against an untouchable is punishable by law ($105 fine...