Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premise for propagating the royal line in a benign African monarchy, it is as farfetched as it is far-darting. As an excuse for propagating a few laughs, it turns an honorable tradition upside down. Princes and princesses from innocently backward realms used to turn up regularly in movies, looking for romantic and material bedazzlement in the more highly developed lands. This young potentate experiments with the notion that fun may be found in letting royalty rough it for a while below the poverty line. Besides, Eddie Murphy, the nation's top box-office star, is Akeem. And Arsenio Hall...
...secret ballots of uncertain outcome, not the usual unanimous show of party cards. Many delegates are convinced that the conference will decide not only the future of perestroika but also the very course of world Communism. "If conservative forces manage to cut short our revolutionary perestroika and throw us backward, it would mean the moral death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society would be led down the ((democratic)) path not by our party but by some other political force, which would emerge from...
...White House report delighted Chicago traders but angered many Wall Streeters and legislators. "The report represents a giant step backward for the American investor," said Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance. "After being handed a game plan for reform by the Brady commission, the working group went into a two-month huddle, came out and punted...
AFTER making great strides in the 1960's and 1970's, the nation is now "moving backward" in civil rights, a commission led by Presidents Carter and Ford has concluded...
...Harvard's anti-union crusaders engaged in an obvious attempt to distort the figures they chose to use. I have worked as an economics journalist, have edited tests in statistics and social sciences, and have taught graphing in math classes; I can't recall ever having seen a chronologically backward graph before--and certainly not one which was also titled chronologically forward...