Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expanding Backward. Even in a business with more mavericks than most, Ashland is a curious operation. Organized in 1924 by Paul Blazer, late uncle of the present chairman, it expanded backward. Rather than develop crude-oil supplies first and then build refineries and markets, Ashland built its markets in the south-central states, expanded its refineries as the markets grew. Ashland still buys most of its crude oil, hauls its purchases with its own barge fleet, one of the Ohio River's largest, or by means of 5,000 miles of Ashland-owned pipeline. Critics accuse the company...
...that had been awaited for 26 years. When he took the throne in 1941, the Shah rejected a formal coronation until he had a male heir, and until Iran was no longer the desperately poor and backward country that he had inherited. His conditions have now been met. His third wife, Empress Farah, gave birth to Crown Prince Reza seven years ago. The Shah himself launched an ambitious development program that has brought industry and prosperity to his nation, and his land reform has turned 15 million peasants into independent farmers whose soil is now their...
Five months ago, after the U.S. and 52 other nations concluded the Kennedy Round and agreed on wide-ranging tariff cuts, the pact was hailed as a historic step forward in world trade. Yet last week the U.S. verged on a backward march. Pending in the Senate were seven bills-the central one pompously called "the Orderly Trade Act of 1967"-that would establish stricter quotas on imports ranging from steel to strawberries, from textiles to goat meat. If enacted, the bills would set limits on $12 billion worth, or 50%, of total U.S. imports. Liberalized-trade advocates compared...
Following the Eliot kickoff, the Quincy offense had little success. For three plays the gridders were pushed backward toward their own goal, and on the fourth down they were forced to punt ou of their own end zone. The Elephants put on a heavy rush, blocked the punt, and Bob Beaman fell on the ball for Eliot's second score...
...real sense, Nigeria's tribal antagonisms are the product of modernization's pressures. The Ibo's skills--and their ambition and industriousness--embittered the backward Hausas, particularly after Ibos captured most of the skilled jobs in the Northern Region. Hausa envy, inflamed by Ibo arrogance, goes a long way toward explaining the tribal explosion...