Word: backwardation
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...property tax--often a substantial amount. Then there is the mother of all arguments for buying: building equity. Last year 25 out of 50 states plus the District of Columbia saw double-digit appreciation in house prices. That's a heck of a return. But it's also backward-looking. If interest rates rise, the housing market will almost certainly slow. And in that case, the gap between renting and buying will start to close...
...built-in speakers point backward from the projector, so the ideal place to put the unit is on the coffee table in front of you. Bear in mind that the farther back the projector is from the wall or screen, the larger the picture will appear. We were able to get a picture roughly equivalent to that of a 65-in. big-screen TV, and didn't have to adjust much for "keystoning" (the tapering that occurs when you point the movie's rectangular picture up at an angle). Once we turned out the lights, and played with contrast...
...helping. The film industry, especially in the four-month peak-viewing period called summer, rarely tries squarely addressing Zeitgeist anxieties. Instead it ransacks its attic for sequels, spin-offs and, this year, remakes. You don't look forward to many of the new season's blockbuster hopefuls. You look backward...
...produce large concerts,” said Glazer. And though the College often blames the UC for not allocating its funds correctly—focusing too much on student group funding than planning student events—to take from the former to give to the latter is a backward approach to improving campus life...
...claim to sexual exclusivity, jealousy is a lamentable hangover from the days when mates were viewed as personal property and extensions of the self. A high-water mark of this view was Alex Comfort's More Joy of Sex, which compared sexual jealousy to carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle." He solemnly advised readers to be proud of having a mate that others wish to sleep with. To the late psychoanalyst Leslie Farber, this view of jealousy was an attempt by pained sexual revolutionaries to conjure up invulnerability by declaring...