Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really wants to see the President hurt," said Senator Orrin Hatch, who could inflict some of that hurt. "[If] he does come forth and say, 'I made a mistake...'[to] protect his wife and daughter...and then ask for...some sort of consideration, I think we would bend over backward to try and give him that consideration...
...President's China visit--which seemed so triumphant, what with his televised human-rights debate in Beijing and lavish praise for President Jiang Zemin--was immediately followed by a Chinese crackdown on 20 dissidents and an embarrassed admission from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that the Chinese are moving backward on human rights. Great Presidents get other people to do great things...
...obituarists called Jerome Robbins "a perfectionist" -- and you know what that means. His dancers hated him; he once fell backward off a stage while demonstrating a number because when he got to the edge, no one said anything. But he was a hell of a song-and-dance man, the guy who got the musical back to Hollywood in the 1950s after MGM's Roaring Thirties ended, the guy who told Mary Martin...
...unmoved by the destruction. "It's part of my past," Simpson told the Associated Press in a telephone interview from a rented home a few miles away. "I am a sentimental guy," Simpson said. "But ... I've always tried to live my life forward and not backward...
...Political change lags behind, but if few people are ready to defy the one-party system, sneaking admiration for the freedoms Americans enjoy is more widespread than party leaders imagine. In an effort to remove the dead economic hand of the government, which has kept China poor and backward, the new leadership is unleashing the energy and ambition of 1.2 billion people to fend for themselves. It is like opening the floodgates of a dam. It is the force that makes the China that U.S. President Bill Clinton will see this week a much different place from what...