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So we shouldn't be surprised that patients aren't happy or that insurers aren't bending over backward to please them.
The smartest course for Gingrich and the Republicans would be to bend over backward to show mercy, restraint, and fairness to Clinton.
Third, the Aborigines were widely thought of as backward and uncivilised and, while this attitude persisted, their nomenclature carried no great recommendation.
Board of Education , Johnson seems to agree that it was an "unprincipled decision" that "turned out to be a prelude to a major step backward in American race relations."
Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in "ordinary" dramas, too.