Word: abstracted
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...while such ideas may be gaining currency in the academic world, it could be years before oil producers, whose domestic economic arrangements depend on high prices, are prepared to cooperate with gas-guzzling consumers. "It's an idea which works in abstract, " says Priddy, but in reality, such cooperation is "absolutely impossible". So enjoy the pump price while you can, because oil markets are likely to remain unpredictable for the foreseeable future...
Paper-money currencies, like BerkShares or the Lewes or Totnes Pound, slip fairly seamlessly into the national economy; their use is taxed like ordinary money. More abstract exchanges are a bit more complicated to deal with. But the tax concern is not insurmountable. "If you use local currency for your main income-generating activity, you must pay income tax," says Hensch, who consults in complementary currencies. Likewise, if you have a business, you'll pay sales tax on any local currency - in New Zealand, that would be Green Dollars, part of LETS - you bring in. But if you trade...
...museum might.”To overcome the divided wall space of the concourse and give some congruence to the wide variety of art she had to work with, Katsnelson organized the exhibit into four groupings, each accompanied by explanatory wall text. The first group features abstract and avant-garde pieces ranging from oil paintings incorporating found objects to theater posters. This grouping features pieces by artist Evgeny Rukhin that Katsnelson feels are some of the most painterly pieces in the collection. “He has an amazing feel for the materiality of the various surfaces he engages...
...small café. Starbucks drinkers are to be scorned. 1. Moleskine (or other pocket) notebook Employed by Van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway, the strategic use of this item will situate you within the great Western Tradition. Notebook is especially effective in displaying your creativity when used for jotting down abstract thoughts or elaborate doodles in the presence of others. 0. Appear non-conformist. —Ama R. Francis is the incoming Covers Editor. She’s concentrating in irony...
...Last June, University President Drew G. Faust rose in front of Memorial Hall to give her first address at commencement, the University’s most symbolically significant ceremony of the year. The historian chose in this historical moment not to make an abstract address about the location of Harvard and its students in the world, but instead to present a political case for the tax-exempt status of the endowment. It was, all told, an eloquent and well-argued speech, drawing a clever equivalence between the strength of our ledger books and the munificence of our deeds...