Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gasp, isn't segregation bad? Isn't that what that whole ruckus in the 1960s was about--ending segregation? What about that Brown vs. Board of Education thingy? If we go back to the segregation of unrandomized housing, aren't we taking a step backward...
...indeed, it is in this distortion, to the extent that Harvard has taken our choice away from us, that we have stepped backward...
...Looking Backward not only popularized long-standing socialist ideas but also strongly influenced their further development and appeal. The Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs publicly thanked Bellamy for guiding him "out of darkness into light..." and for "fill[ing] a despairing world with hope." Not everybody shared that particular hope. Like most Utopias, Bellamy's not only was naive but also seemed to leave little room for individual freedom...
Bronfman may have created some problems by hiring his top executive team backward. When talks with Ovitz fell through, he hired Ovitz's partner, Meyer, as No. 2 man. Meyer installed his associate Sandy Climan and his friend Weitzman in top executive jobs. Both are now gone. And finally, with the key players already in place, Bronfman hired Frank Biondi as chairman of the company...
...Posterior instability in an athlete is unusual, and in a golfer it's some concern because the ball is sliding backward in the socket," Hawkins said. "We used lasers and heat to shrink it down and try to create some stability. This is a new procedure and without it we would have had to cut into the shoulder...