Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER TAKING STEP forward on the issue of sexual harassment, the Faculty Council now appears poised to take several paces backward...
Still, he became widely regarded as a martyr of science who had been humbled by backward churchmen. Despite some tributes to Galileo by later church leaders, including several Popes, his condemnation has continued to taint relations between the Vatican-indeed, perhaps all religious authority-and scientists...
They point out that the church's attitude toward science then was not as backward as it is now sometimes perceived. As early as the 13th century, French Physicist George Bene notes, theologians like Thomas Aquinas had warned against the danger of literal interpretation of the Bible...
...exploiters nor exploited people nor unemployment nor poverty. A country in which formerly three-fourths of the population could not read or write, the Soviet Union has become a land of 100% literacy, and three-quarters of its working people have a secondary or higher education. In place of backward Imperial Russia, a new country has emerged that has the world's largest number of book readers and theatergoers and the largest number of engineers, scientists and doctors. And every Soviet citizen is confident that tomorrow he will live even better than he lives today...
...facilities, which is generally done by a veritable army of subcontractors under the direction of the utility, is often poorly supervised. The result of this laxness is work that can best be described as shoddy. Some of the earthquake supports for California's Diablo Canyon plant were installed backward, as was the reactor vessel at the San Onofre plant near San Diego. Reactor supports at Comanche Peak in Texas were installed 45° out of position. Pipes inside and outside the reactor building at Shoreham on Long Island, N.Y., failed to meet properly and had to be connected with elbow joints...