Word: backwards
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Tibet at that time was very, very backward. The ruling class did not seem to care, and there was much inequality. Marxism talked about an equal and just distribution of wealth. I was very much in favor of this. Then there was the concept of self-creation. Marxism talked about self-reliance, without depending on a creator or a God. That was very attractive. I had tried to do some things for my people, but I did not have enough time. I still think that if a genuine communist movement had come to Tibet, there would have been much benefit...
...still carry such fees that a long-distance company that uses them can?t offer competitive rates, leaving Bell Atlantic?s home base of New York, for all practical purposes, a one-company market." Reality, however, doesn?t have lobbyists; Bell Atlantic?s have for years been bending over backward to convince New York regulators (on whose go-ahead the FCC?s approval depends) that they?re ready, willing and legally able to wade into the long-distance fray. On their side is increasing political pressure from Congress for the 1996 act to start getting results; against them...
Hawking noted how physicists have realized that time is not as constant and once believed, but is instead highly variable, with eddies that can move forward, backward, and even repeat themselves...
Last week I stood on the sidewalk with my two favorite young cousins and watched as one of those giant moving vans pulled up to their front door. Before we knew it, five guys in backward baseball caps were waltzing the family couch down the front steps and into the truck. Mom and dad were still packing boxes; no one could find the key to the front door; and the family cat was under the porch, threatening to join the ASPCA. Moving day had arrived. The kids had seen the new house (it's nice). They had toured...
...recently as five years ago, all that scientists could really tell about our earliest ancestors was when they first appeared. Molecular biologists had measured the differences between human and chimpanzee DNA, then averaged the rate of genetic change over time. By calculating backward, they determined that great apes and hominids branched from a common ancestor between 6 million and 4 million years ago. But no fossils were on hand to support this scenario. The oldest hominid species known, Australopithecus afarensis (southern ape of the Afar), could be dated back only 3.6 million years. Its most famous member, Lucy, unearthed...