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It's also clear that most versions of the flat tax — such as Malcolm S. Forbes's suggestions, in 1996, or Herman Cain's "9-9-9," in 2012 — have enormous potential for unfairness; for being retrogressive, by hurting the poor more than the rich; for setting off calls for value-added taxes, which might be more retrogressive; and for simply being ploys to grant favors to various interest groups.

It said union negotiators had "worked hard to ward off retrogressive proposals" by AT&T.

In the past, it was possible to defend retrogressive architecture by asserting that the public found it pleasing.

In a somewhat retrogressive move by Jay Z's streaming service, fans can buy CDs of the funk titan's latest album from the streaming site.

In the past few years, for example, stretches of Sixth Avenue have been disfigured by retrogressive buildings.

The gun lobby is pushing additional retrogressive legislation, emboldened by such developments as the failure last week of a Brooklyn lawsuit accusing gun manufacturers of tolerating shady dealers who figure in the nation's rampage of handgun killings.

We have developed a new methodology for forward analysis of retrogressive rehydration reactions by improving the differential thermodynamic method (Spear 1993).

Unreasonable operation of the reservoir and incoming hyperconcentrated floods accompanied by retrogressive erosion also aggravate the siltation of the main channel of the river.

Initial failures generated downslope eroding sediment flows and submarine rills that evolved into their modern forms by retrogressive slumping when the rill walls became oversteepened.

The purpose of this study is to develop a new method of forward analysis of retrogressive hydration reactions by improving the differential thermodynamic forward modeling approach (Inui and Toriumi 2004; Kuwatani et al. 2011; Spear 1993).

Such cyclic step-antidune successions form the characteristic basal infill of mid-fan channels, and are inferred to be related to successive supercritical high-density turbidity flows triggered by retrogressive slope failures.