Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is to be done? Representative Washington has it exactly backward. Forget the crumbs, demand reparations. It is time for a historic compromise: a monetary reparation to blacks for centuries of oppression in return for the total abolition of all programs of racial preference. A one-time cash payment in return for a new era of irrevocable color blindness...
...country in which medical breakthroughs occur with dizzying regularity, the U.S. has been disturbingly backward in the field of contraception research. Not a single fundamentally new birth-control method has been introduced since the Pill and the IUD, or intrauterine device, came out in the early 1960s. Meanwhile, in several European countries, a series of contraceptive innovations has broadened the range of methods far beyond what is available in the U.S. -- and sharply reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies...
...statement issued yesterday, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 called the ruling "a step backward" and said that it would hurt University attempts to increase the number of minority Ph.D. students on the faculty track...
...lush green valley. At that campfire, a talented cowboy-guitarist nicknamed Fluffy performs the Oreo Cookie Blues, which he describes as a "song of addiction." Next morning the scouts heat irons to mark their hiking boots and hats with Philmont's brand: a P and "crazy" (backward) S under...
...some said they were tired of campaigns and elections; others that they felt their votes, amid millions of ballots, counted for nothing. In an open-air market run by unemployed workers, one woman, retaining the old reluctance to give her name, dismissed any worry about absenteeism. Casting an eye backward in time, she said, "Of course they'll vote. It's a secret ballot...