Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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President Bush and his running mate offer a backward-looking view to the nation's (and the world's) environmental problems. By demagogically striking a contradiction between environmental protection and economic advance, Bush and Quayle have sacrificed precious time the country could have used to begin solving its environmental problems...
...DECISIVE WEEK OF THE CAMpaign -- not because of what happened but because of what did not. If the Republicans were ever to tighten the presidential race, last week, crowded as it was with TV debates, was when they had to begin. But if anything, their foray seemed to go backward. The latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup tracking poll showed Bill Clinton with an almost unchanged 13-point lead -- and that was on the eve of the big face-off with George Bush and Ross Perot Thursday night, from which the Democrat emerged a clear winner. To some viewers, in fact, Bush seemed...
There is no reasonable justification for not moving the first day of elections a day forward or backward, for example, to insure that the most important campaigning time wouldn't coincide with the most important Jewish holiday...
...Backward Progress...
...Golden Age of wishful thinking in the 19th century, when conventional wisdom foresaw ever greater prosperity and ease. Jules Verne invented science fiction in the 1860s with his tales of space flight and submarine voyage, and the American Edward Bellamy, in his widely read 1888 novel Looking Backward, imagined Boston around the year 2000 as a genteel Utopia where everyone enjoys equal pay and crime has all but disappeared...