Having lived in the 1940s and 1950s, just after the defeated Japanese left a poverty stricken Singapore, I have seen the struggles during the development of my then backward country to a modern metropolis.

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Most of the time I was trying to play like Chuck Berry or Jimmy Reed, electric stuff, then I sort of worked backward into country blues.

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We are not going to let this country fall backward -- not now, not with so much at stake.

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When the number of new jobs being created is less than the number of new entrants into the work force each month, the country is going backward.

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Russia, they say, is too big and too backward to be governed exactly like a western country.

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He is very popular in the west of the country, but goes down less well is the more backward, rural regions of eastern Turkey.

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