Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lawyers, Lamb told his audience, tend to spend too much time looking backward. "The complex problems of our technological society of today are being resolved by men who make decisions quickly based on facts and data quickly assembled. Last year's figures are of only historical importance as we set up profit planning against future targets. Professional managers, therefore, look forward...
...shape," says Duffy, "that one of my Holy Cross jumpers, a six-eight man at best, was beating him consistently." Almost at once, Duffy spotted a flaw in Thomas' motion. "John had picked up the bad habit of almost stopping and arching backward, right at the bar," he says. "He was losing all his spring that...
...smattering of languages, and big, clear handwriting. During Lord Palmerston's 16 years as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, state papers were constantly returned from 10 Downing Street with testy quibbles on the writer's grammar or his handwriting, which, Palmerston insisted, should slope forward, not backward "like the raking masts of an American schooner...
...stretched his nation's resources dangerously thin. The 1964 and 1965 budgets published in Moscow last week showed sharp cutbacks in plans for such key sectors of heavy industry as steel and electric power in order to divert massive additional funds to the lagging agriculture program and the backward chemical industry. Perhaps the lack of capital was also the cause of the declining rate in Russia's air and space spectaculars. The latest edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft lists only one new Soviet plane for 1962-a high-altitude reconnaissance plane like...
...charges against Advance showed "backward reasoning," Sohweig asserted. He said that he had always thought it the right of every American citizen to dissent from any law that he considered unjust...