My testing shows that this signal is this is backward-looking and not very useful, but since a large number of people believe it, they act on it resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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He believed that the federal government was not just a passive repository of good practice, but an active promoter of constitutional rights against narrow and backward provincialism.

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This lobbying group of course looked after the interests of corporate India, but often as not those were in concert with the interests of enterprise generally and at odds with some of the most backward laws that encrust the Indian marketplace.

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