History writer and former teacher Trevor Fisher however described the report as "awful" and "backward looking".
And they both said that the problem with Moody's analysis was that it was backward looking.
This was to have been be a backward looking test, looking at what firms had done in the past 10 years.
Confidence surveys are fairly coincident at best, if not backward looking.
He understands the risk that in portraying itself, Britain might be seen as backward looking, wallowing in its past, nostalgic for the "good old days".
"The suggestion that they are going to address this by dealing with the whole issue of contamination of seminarians is backward looking and disingenuous, " he said.
Well the, the, the US Federal Reserve certainly has, is moving aggressively, maybe going for an overkill and the European Central Bank is firmly backward looking and is not moving until inflation has come down so the, there is room to criticise the policy of the European Central Bank.
It was messy, it was forward-looking and backward-looking at once.
They are backward-looking and don't reflect Fed errors until a year or two after the crime.
Other firms claim that their backward-looking and forward-looking measures are even more closely correlated.
It is clearly backward-looking as well as forward-looking and in its worst forms it is a licence for fraudsters.
The same flawed thinking led bank regulators to create the backward-looking Basel models for setting capital levels in banks.
The technique itself is 90 years old, and even the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences is not that backward-looking.
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Policy plans adopted now would either be backward-looking, out of date by the next election, or stolen by Labour.
The backward-looking nature of this approach is also troubling, even to potential fans of the approach such as Mark Carney.
While the information is backward-looking, the vote of confidence from central banks does help market sentiment when the buying is confirmed.
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Instead, Mr Burnham wants to see a "Modern Baccalaureate" as an alternative to what he describes as "Gove's narrow backward-looking vision".
How can the EU claim to be a political model for the 21st-century superstate when it remains so backward-looking on this key point?
There is even talk of a split in the party between liberals, who look to Mr Kwasniewski, and Mr Miller's more backward-looking supporters.
Backward-looking analyses like Mr. Sunstein's ignore the undefined and discretionary future rules that are convulsing health care or the EPA's industrial planning in energy.
The only way to show compensation still rising is to combine forward- and backward-looking measures of pay in any year, a misleading statistical technique.
Advisor sentiment is a backward-looking indicator of stock market action.
Nor is the backward-looking tact of downsizing and restructuring alone.
One key element is economic the active articulation between the advanced economic sectors and backward-looking sectors, i.e. sectors that seem like an anachronism in an advanced urban economy.
We are emerging from the worst recession since the second world war, yet we are in danger of making backward-looking laws that will crimp consumer credit into the recovery.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was thought to be self-funded by the institutions whose deposits they insure, but they, too, underpriced the insurance by taking a backward-looking approach to funding.
But this is by no means a backward-looking book.
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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.
Trade unions (including the powerful and backward-looking teachers' unions), who raised as much as a third of his campaign war-chest, have been agitating for long-delayed pay rises ever since the night of November 3rd.
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