Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Didn't CELINE DION realize that a modern accessory like the pimp hat doesn't really work with the classic double-breasted, white-silk suit worn backward? 5 Could this pleasant-looking woman be the same FERNANDA MONTENEGRO who two days after the Academy Awards said Gwyneth Paltrow bagged her Oscar only because she is "thin, pure and virginal" and Life Is Beautiful "didn't deserve...
BURT RUTAN Airplane kits with nose-mounted wings and no tail that seem to fly backward. Jets with oversize canards mounted, Wright-brothers style, forward of the wings. A spindly, twin-boomed plane that in 1986 was the first to fly around the world without refueling. Aircraft designed by Burt Rutan don't look like other planes. One of the industry's most innovative and influential designers, Rutan has built a pressurized gondola for a round-the-world balloon attempt, a rigid winglike sail for an America's Cup winner, GM's Ultralight show car and the X-38 NASA...
Though Goddard never saw a bit of it, credit would be given him, and--more important to a man who so disdained the press--amends would be made. After Apollo 11 lifted off en route to humanity's first moon landing, the New York Times took a bemused backward glance at a tart little editorial it had published 49 years before. "Further investigation and experimentation," said the paper in 1969, "have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well...
...teaching fellows a great deal of power-in fact, too much power. in addition to steering section discussions and setting paper guidelines, each section leader was given the authority to determine his own method of grading first-year students. While some section leaders were willing to bend over backward to help the new students, others graded first-years as stringently as seniors. And though both options have merit, this inconsistency across sections of the same class should cease. First-year grading should be standardized across each course, by a consensus of the teaching fellows and the course's professor...
Hopkins said the general consensus among womenin the academic community is that Harvard is"quite backward" in terms of recognizing thesubtle ways it discriminates against women...