Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most part the essays are enjoyable--an honest and profound look at America, at human success and failure and at growing up. They portray an era and are perhaps more meaningful than the slew of backward-looking books that vomit up recent social history...
...objects" in Eisenhower's era, but again ignores advances women made during that era. World War II gave women unparallelled employment opportunities, and the drive toward economic equality took off not in the 1970s but in the 1940s. The '50s was not an awful era for women, a step backward on the road to equality...
...subject to "strict scrutiny." This means that public-sector affirmative-action programs are valid only if they serve the "compelling state interest" of redressing "identified discrimination." Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a bitter dissent joined by Justices William Brennan and Harry Blackmun, called the decision "a deliberate and giant step backward in this court's affirmative-action jurisprudence...
...wormhole at nearly the speed of light, general relativity dictates that time at that end would slow down, and that portion of the tunnel would then be younger than the other end. Anything moving from the faster-aging end of the wormhole to the slower would essentially go backward in time. The mode of travel, however, could be nothing like the mechanical time machine, complete with saddle, envisioned by H.G. Wells. It is hard to conceive how a human being could move through a wormhole, since it would theoretically be narrower than an atom, and it would tend to vanish...
...abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could and a check. But Glynnis will not believe this story. Through a long, tense evening, the McCulloughs drink and argue. Suddenly Glynnis is brandishing a knife, there is blood on the floor, and Glynnis hurtles backward through a plate-glass window. After 18 days in a coma, she dies. Following the funeral and a police investigation, Ian is charged with second-degree murder...