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Time won’t stop and life won’t stand still. But I have a feeling that if I just look backward once in a while at Dorothy, if I am off beat in any way, I’ll get back on the soundtrack again. . . . – Judy Garland	added by regnumveritatis 4 years ago
U.S./China trade newsflow seemed to take a backward step ahead of important talks this week and UK/EU Brexit talks not only unraveled but the relationship between the two sides seems to be in danger of breaking down completely, so the obvious cracks that have been appearing over more than four decades of globalization are in danger of widening significantly in the days and weeks ahead. – Jim Reid	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In the smoke haze, the most abundant particles are around onemicrometre in size, but these particles do not change the colour of the light we see, there are also smaller particles, around 0.05 micrometres or less, that dont make up a lot of the haze but are still somewhat more abundant during a haze period [than a normal non-haze period]... but this is enough to give an extra tendency to scatter red light more in the forward and backward directions than blue light - and that is why would you see more red than blue. – Google Translate	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Our goal then and now has been to bring justice to Jeannie and her family, and while we would have preferred to place handcuffs on the suspect, we hope knowing who and where he is brings them some degree of closure. MISSOURI MAN INDICTED IN COLD CASE MURDER HE WAS QUIZZED ABOUT 31 YEARS AGO The sheriffs office said Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Moore near Denver when he was 23 years old. Donald Perea, Donald Perea, died on May 28, 2012, at the age of 54 due to health-related issues. Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Jeannie Moore near Denver in August 1981, according to officials. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) Investigators said Donald Perea was out on bond for a separate sexual assault case when Jeannie Moores was killed ; Donald Perea was later convicted and was in prison from 1982 to 1985. Jeannie Moores left Jeannie Moores home for work at a gas station on Aug. 25, 1981 -- hitchhiking as Jeannie Moores typically would -- when Jeannie Moores was last seen getting into an older Ford Galaxy or LTD that was red, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Five days later, Jeannie Moores body was found by picnickers in Genesee Park, south of Interstate 70. An autopsy found that Jeannie Moores was killed by several blows to the head, FOX31 reported. After Jeannie Moores murder went unsolved for decades, officials said the cold case was looked at in 2008 and again in May 2019, when new technology found a match. A public-private partnership that allowed forensic genealogy testing to be completed by United Data Connect Connect helped uncover a match. The information that led to Donald Perea was the same technology that helped crack the Golden State killer and other notable cold-case murders and rapes in 2018. How authorities linked Steven Perea to the case. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) The DNA evidence from the crime scene was linked to a family member of Donald Perea this spring, and investigators were able to interview family members and get other samples to confirm that he was the suspect linked to the case. OREGON MAN ARRESTED IN 1978 COLD-CASE MURDER OF ALASKA TEEN, AUTHORITIES SAY Joan Busse, a genealogist with United Data Connect, told FOX31 Joan Busse put in 40 to 60 hours working backward through thousands of ancestors on public genealogy websites and DNA matches to identify a suspect. DNA can be uploaded to public genealogy websites such as GEDmatch.com through commercial kits where people can choose to opt-inif they want law enforcement to be able to access that information. – Jefferson County	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I was really surprised at how much criticism there was of literally the most popular, most recent two-term American president, we should be looking forward as a party more than we're looking backward. To the extent we are going to review President Obama's record, I think we should be highlighting some of its strengths rather than re-litigating some of the questions about it. – Chris Coons	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Should the incumbent (TIM) control the new entity it would not just be a big U-turn but also a backward step. – Angelo Cardani	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
He's doing it backward. – Julian Castro	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Today's announcement is a major step backward in offshore drilling safety. Our government shouldn't be catering to the demands of the oil industry at the expense of our public and environmental safety, more drilling and less safety is a recipe for disaster. – Diane Hoskins	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are in danger of stumbling backward into a Cold War that is to no ones advantage, without steady, political-level engagement between the defense establishments, the risk of a true new Cold War rises steadily. – James Stavridis	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You see, as progressives we're not interested in making our country anything again, we're not looking backward. We're looking to the future. We're interested in the future and making America better than it ever has been. – Montana Gov. Steve Bullock	Found on CNN 5 years ago
About seven seconds on the clock he just kept going backward, I don’t know why, but he just threw it up and I didn’t think it had any chance of going in, that was kind of like a dagger shot. It just gave us all the momentum back. – Klay Thompson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
All of a sudden, Eric Schneiderman just slapped me, open-handed and with great force, across the face, landing the blow directly onto my ear, it was horrendous. It just came out of nowhere. My ear was ringing. I lost my balance and fell backward onto the bed. I sprang up, but at this point there was very little room between the bed and him. – Michelle Manning	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am talking about my own country, the United States of America. We don’t like to say we are a ‘backward’ country so let’s just say we are suffering from a case of temporary insanity. – Robert De Niro	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We’ve moved it backward and forward pretty equally in Republican and Democratic administrations, that’s a criticism or a charge that’s been unfounded. – Rachel Bronson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To lavish them (corporations) with huge tax breaks and ask the middle class to bear the cost—that’s about as backward as it gets. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Hoping without trying, it's like walking backward while facing forward. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 6 years ago
What you did today truly hurt someone, and you should be ashamed. you didn’t see that he doesn’t understand that flailing, kicking, and trying to hurl himself backward makes it incredibly difficult, painful, and exhausting to carry him. – Colleen Scarlett-Stice	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
International anti-trafficking standards have evolved, standing still is slipping backward in the face of a growing global challenge. – Clifford Hart	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The pro-life movement takes two steps forward and, occasionally, a step backward. – Carol Tobias	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The retail sales that we are seeing today is backward. I would put less weight on backward-looking data and I would put more weight on management's discussion of guidance in the future, and that doesn't look good, investors are starting to build a mosaic of information suggesting that the consumer is not doing as well as you would expect. – Mohannad Aama	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
As soon as the two crossed, (Israeli forces) started screaming 'Go back, go back', and then they began shooting. The first one they shot was the girl ... the boy tried to go backward, when they fired seven bullets at him. – Alaa Soboh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Challenges can either knock us backward, or be used as a step toward our goals. We choose the direction! – Bob Reish	added by CoachBob 8 years ago
This seems odd because it is backward looking and not forward looking, but it is to do with market psychology, because the greatest demand for inflation products comes when realized inflation prints high. – Dariush Mirfendereski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Over the last five years, spot inflation has been the best predictor of inflation breakevens, this seems odd because it is backward looking and not forward looking, but it is to do with market psychology, because the greatest demand for inflation products comes when realized inflation prints high. – Dariush Mirfendereski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Time won’t stop and life won’t stand still. But I have a feeling that if I just look backward once in a while at Dorothy, if I am off beat in any way, I’ll get back on the soundtrack again. . . .

– Judy Garland

added by regnumveritatis
4 years ago

U.S./China trade newsflow seemed to take a backward step ahead of important talks this week and UK/EU Brexit talks not only unraveled but the relationship between the two sides seems to be in danger of breaking down completely, so the obvious cracks that have been appearing over more than four decades of globalization are in danger of widening significantly in the days and weeks ahead.

– Jim Reid

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the smoke haze, the most abundant particles are around onemicrometre in size, but these particles do not change the colour of the light we see, there are also smaller particles, around 0.05 micrometres or less, that dont make up a lot of the haze but are still somewhat more abundant during a haze period [than a normal non-haze period]... but this is enough to give an extra tendency to scatter red light more in the forward and backward directions than blue light - and that is why would you see more red than blue.

– Google Translate

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Our goal then and now has been to bring justice to Jeannie and her family, and while we would have preferred to place handcuffs on the suspect, we hope knowing who and where he is brings them some degree of closure. MISSOURI MAN INDICTED IN COLD CASE MURDER HE WAS QUIZZED ABOUT 31 YEARS AGO The sheriffs office said Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Moore near Denver when he was 23 years old. Donald Perea, Donald Perea, died on May 28, 2012, at the age of 54 due to health-related issues. Donald Perea kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Jeannie Moore near Denver in August 1981, according to officials. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) Investigators said Donald Perea was out on bond for a separate sexual assault case when Jeannie Moores was killed ; Donald Perea was later convicted and was in prison from 1982 to 1985. Jeannie Moores left Jeannie Moores home for work at a gas station on Aug. 25, 1981 -- hitchhiking as Jeannie Moores typically would -- when Jeannie Moores was last seen getting into an older Ford Galaxy or LTD that was red, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Five days later, Jeannie Moores body was found by picnickers in Genesee Park, south of Interstate 70. An autopsy found that Jeannie Moores was killed by several blows to the head, FOX31 reported. After Jeannie Moores murder went unsolved for decades, officials said the cold case was looked at in 2008 and again in May 2019, when new technology found a match. A public-private partnership that allowed forensic genealogy testing to be completed by United Data Connect Connect helped uncover a match. The information that led to Donald Perea was the same technology that helped crack the Golden State killer and other notable cold-case murders and rapes in 2018. How authorities linked Steven Perea to the case. ( Jefferson County Sheriff's Office) The DNA evidence from the crime scene was linked to a family member of Donald Perea this spring, and investigators were able to interview family members and get other samples to confirm that he was the suspect linked to the case. OREGON MAN ARRESTED IN 1978 COLD-CASE MURDER OF ALASKA TEEN, AUTHORITIES SAY Joan Busse, a genealogist with United Data Connect, told FOX31 Joan Busse put in 40 to 60 hours working backward through thousands of ancestors on public genealogy websites and DNA matches to identify a suspect. DNA can be uploaded to public genealogy websites such as GEDmatch.com through commercial kits where people can choose to opt-inif they want law enforcement to be able to access that information.

– Jefferson County

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I was really surprised at how much criticism there was of literally the most popular, most recent two-term American president, we should be looking forward as a party more than we're looking backward. To the extent we are going to review President Obama's record, I think we should be highlighting some of its strengths rather than re-litigating some of the questions about it.

– Chris Coons

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Should the incumbent (TIM) control the new entity it would not just be a big U-turn but also a backward step.

– Angelo Cardani

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

He's doing it backward.

– Julian Castro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Today's announcement is a major step backward in offshore drilling safety. Our government shouldn't be catering to the demands of the oil industry at the expense of our public and environmental safety, more drilling and less safety is a recipe for disaster.

– Diane Hoskins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are in danger of stumbling backward into a Cold War that is to no ones advantage, without steady, political-level engagement between the defense establishments, the risk of a true new Cold War rises steadily.

– James Stavridis

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You see, as progressives we're not interested in making our country anything again, we're not looking backward. We're looking to the future. We're interested in the future and making America better than it ever has been.

– Montana Gov. Steve Bullock

Found on CNN
5 years ago

About seven seconds on the clock he just kept going backward, I don’t know why, but he just threw it up and I didn’t think it had any chance of going in, that was kind of like a dagger shot. It just gave us all the momentum back.

– Klay Thompson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

All of a sudden, Eric Schneiderman just slapped me, open-handed and with great force, across the face, landing the blow directly onto my ear, it was horrendous. It just came out of nowhere. My ear was ringing. I lost my balance and fell backward onto the bed. I sprang up, but at this point there was very little room between the bed and him.

– Michelle Manning

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am talking about my own country, the United States of America. We don’t like to say we are a ‘backward’ country so let’s just say we are suffering from a case of temporary insanity.

– Robert De Niro

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We’ve moved it backward and forward pretty equally in Republican and Democratic administrations, that’s a criticism or a charge that’s been unfounded.

– Rachel Bronson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To lavish them (corporations) with huge tax breaks and ask the middle class to bear the cost—that’s about as backward as it gets.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Hoping without trying, it's like walking backward while facing forward.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

What you did today truly hurt someone, and you should be ashamed. you didn’t see that he doesn’t understand that flailing, kicking, and trying to hurl himself backward makes it incredibly difficult, painful, and exhausting to carry him.

– Colleen Scarlett-Stice

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

International anti-trafficking standards have evolved, standing still is slipping backward in the face of a growing global challenge.

– Clifford Hart

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The pro-life movement takes two steps forward and, occasionally, a step backward.

– Carol Tobias

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The retail sales that we are seeing today is backward. I would put less weight on backward-looking data and I would put more weight on management's discussion of guidance in the future, and that doesn't look good, investors are starting to build a mosaic of information suggesting that the consumer is not doing as well as you would expect.

– Mohannad Aama

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

As soon as the two crossed, (Israeli forces) started screaming 'Go back, go back', and then they began shooting. The first one they shot was the girl ... the boy tried to go backward, when they fired seven bullets at him.

– Alaa Soboh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Challenges can either knock us backward, or be used as a step toward our goals. We choose the direction!

– Bob Reish

added by CoachBob
8 years ago

This seems odd because it is backward looking and not forward looking, but it is to do with market psychology, because the greatest demand for inflation products comes when realized inflation prints high.

– Dariush Mirfendereski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Over the last five years, spot inflation has been the best predictor of inflation breakevens, this seems odd because it is backward looking and not forward looking, but it is to do with market psychology, because the greatest demand for inflation products comes when realized inflation prints high.

– Dariush Mirfendereski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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