Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They came by the millions when times were good, from backward villages in Anatolia and the Punjab, from the Caribbean and North Africa. For the most part, they were welcome, even sought after. They constituted a willing and indispensable Lumpenproletariat for Western Europe's postwar boom, ready to do work no one else wanted to do. Their large families, their mosques, their exotic costumes and customs were merely transitory inconveniences. One day they would vanish: the "migrants," the gastarbeiters, the travailleurs immigrés would simply go home. But they stayed, and a new generation grew to adulthood: dark...
Bourguiba's quick policy reversal has allayed their resentment for the time being. Late last week Bourguiba also fired Interior Minister Idris Guigah, who called out the security forces in the riots. But in defusing the violence, Bourguiba also took a step backward in resolving Tunisia's long-term economic problems. The global recession and plummeting prices of crude oil, Tunisia's principal export, have reduced revenues. The food subsidies, which would have cost the government an estimated $236 million in 1984, were a sensible target for austerity measures and had been suggested...
...memory keeps one picture in particular: St. Peter's Square in May 1981. It shows Pope John Paul II in white robes, capsized backward on his seat, stricken, in a posture vaguely reminiscent of the Pietà. There is an adrenal burst of motion in the scene as the security men spring alive and the Pontiff's white Popemobile lurches off through the crowd...
Indeed, the Council has proceeded with this issue in a most backward and expensive manner. The Council should start from scratch, and conduct informal (i.e. non-monetary) surveys of the house committees. From these grassroots discussions, sufficient ideas will emerge so that the Council can plan a whole program of University-wide social events (ranging from concerts to festivals to contests). If it is found to be absolutely necessary, then the Council can conduct a survey to determine which concerts to stage and which festivals to hold...
...spent most of their time scuttling about behind their own lines trying to avoid destruction. Greg Gizzi of Harvard generally succeeded in this effort, and Mike Curtin of Yale generally did not. Penalties and inadvertence often had the effect of causing each team to move 20 or more yards backward, not forward, in a series of downs. Yale steadied briefly in the third quarter and moved determinedly in the customary direction to tie Harvard with a touchdown. When Harvard fluffed the extra point after its next score, it seemed possible that if Yale could cross the goal line once more...