Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foodstuffs and fewer housing woes than its neighbors. But Czechoslovakia 50 years ago boasted one of Europe's strongest economies, and many residents compare their living standards not with those of East bloc neighbors but with those of the West. By that measure, Czechoslovaks concluded that their economy was backward...
...wait a minute. If Madison Avenue is any indication, American women are going backward. What happened to the superwoman in the tailored suit and floppy bow tie who brought home all that bacon? What happened to breakfast with the national sales manager and racing for the 8:05? What happened to aspiring to the executive suite, to beating men at their own game...
...conceit, the wishful thinking of someone who has chosen to write in a world that no longer seems to require his labor? With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves this question through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas, the former comrade who may have gone backward in time, toward prehistory, to achieve an authority and integrity lost to contemporary writers. Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder I try to see through it, the more...
...before I left for Harvard, I put together a make-shift campaign headquarters on a shoestring budget with no telephones. It represented one of the only contributions the Democratic organization would let me make to a backward, lethargic campaign. Democrats had gotten so comfortable with idea of doing nothing and losing comfortably that they were completely surprised by the idea of an active (maybe even winning) campaign...
...mission -- to transform Uganda from a backward country to an advanced country. The economy is the base of stability. It affects your social programs, your political stability, everything...