Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people is so great it almost crushes me." In his first press conference the President-elect vowed that "the first, the most important and the most absolute of all the priorities of my government" would be to solve the economic problems of Brazil's northeast. This is the most backward region of the country; its inhabitants are so poor that they are known as "the afflicted ones." A recurrent theme of the press conference was inflation, which is now increasing at an annual rate of about 230%. Neves said that cuts in public spending are vital, but vowed...
...they were outclassed; almost anyone would be, but that did not make the situation any easier. The group disbanded in 1972, and four years and two halfheartedly received solo albums later, Fogerty shut himself down. He did not stop making music--"Once you stop the next step is backward, and you're going to end up in a bar some place in Albuquerque"--but he did something much harder. He started all over again...
...studies the exotic fields from the outskirts of California's Silicon Valley, maintains that the frontier industries are changing the way other, more commonplace businesses are conducted. These technologies, he says, are "transforming the whole economy." Textiles and apparel making, for example, are usually considered labor-intensive, backward industries. But instead of being displaced by that technology, contends Zysman, textile manufacturing is part of the new industrial revolution. Cloth can be cut by laser beams, and looms are driven by computers programmed, ironically in some cases, to duplicate the irregularities of hand weaving. Insurance companies offer a variety...
...United States is the most politically backward country in the world," Ture said, calling American culture "bourgeois" and the American political scene "obscene." But he added that "humans have an instinctive love for justice" and will keep fighting for equality until they overcome "vicious capitalist pigs...
...called Harvard students who use knowledge for their own advancement "stupid" and "backward." He said that Black students should remember that they would not be at Harvard today if Black civil rights leaders of the sixties had not fought for racial equality...