To suggest Wall Street deserves an exemption due to its role in the economy is backward thinking.

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So some might be forgiven for thinking they were taking a backward step bringing their hour-long show, entitled Chase the Dream, Not The Competition, to Edinburgh's Udderbelly, which holds just 410 people.

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"To use a term that includes the word 'boy' to describe a state of independence and free-thinking for women seems kind of backward, " Spinelli said.

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The same flawed thinking led bank regulators to create the backward-looking Basel models for setting capital levels in banks.

FORBES

It's been so many years, in fact, since Allen told us to "go backwards when forward fails" that the notions of forward and backward no longer seem relevant, and neither do any of the standard ways of thinking about art generationally.

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