Word: backwardation
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...tangled in confusion, but the Self itself stood fast. It was kept in place (like Bishop Berkeley's tree in the quad) by God, or at least by church custom or class. Today, the selves are multiplying like amoebae, and a man with only one is downright backward. Man's identity was scooped out of its solid container by the Machine, spattered all over the place by psychoanalysis, and is being scraped up, in denatured form by the modern state. "Governments all over the world . . . give you cards, on which they inscribe in capital letters the name which...
...athletic director of North Carolina State College has taken the matter to the attention of his two senators. Similarly, the other colleges involved, as well as the entire sports world, looked forward to the arrival of the Soviet team. The A.A.U. and the State Department have both taken backward stands, but there is still enough time to reverse these positions, and allow the Russians into the country...
...guess the best guy I got is Berra who catches every day and then Mantle." said Casey in pure Stengelese, as he stole a quick look backward over the season. "Skowron maybe, but Skowron played a month only and then he got hurt so he can't count. Rest of our infield is pretty good; hard to pick out the best...
...film begins-with one of the biggest (and crassest) lapel-clutch introductions a film ever had-Bogart, in clerical black, is seen staggering on-camera across the wastes of up-country China, a backward look of terror on his face and a wicked-looking .45 in his hand. He soon comes to a mission outpost, where he is welcomed as the new man the bishop promised to send. And yet, as the doctor's wife (Agnes Moorehead) prattles to her husband (E. G. Marshall), "there seems to be so much in him that wasn't intended...
...ascribed the increase to three main causes: 1) development of land and water resources in backward countries and the provision of new incentives for peasants, such as land reform; 2) widespread adoption of price supports; 3) "the scientific revolution in agriculture." This technical revolution led by the U.S. is the most important factor in the increase. FAO notes that world use of commercial fertilizer has almost doubled since 1939 and that the number of farm tractors has been tripled...