In the next months, Italy will not look backward or inwards.

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Yet companies rarely use analytics to plan for the future, as good as they may be at using its data to look backward to identify trends.

FORBES

Now that Saddam Hussein has once again turned his pathetically impoverished country into a kitchen for poisons and a stage for his grandiosity, it is time to look backward and up.

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We can look backward in time for guidance.

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It's not going to look backward.

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As we wind down for the holidays, and put the first year of Dodd-Frank behind us, now is a great time to look forward and backward.

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David Landes's grand backward look at the world explains its development not just through concepts like property rights and industrial innovation, but also through inventions like the plough, the windmill and eyeglasses.

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What you really need to keep in mind is that the rest of the financial world looks backward for its data and does not look at real time the way we do.

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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.

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If we look at California, however, we see that this critique has it backward.

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Haas didn't look his age from the start, and not just because he played with his cap on backward.

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