Word: aptness
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Early Warning. Many U.S. entrepreneurs in the Common Market will thus have to worry about possible antitrust prosecution from three different quarters-the U.S., the European nation in which they are operating and the Common Market. In some respects, they are apt to find the Common Market code the clearest and easiest to comply with. In contrast to the U.S., where the Justice Department cannot always predict whether the courts will find a proposed deal in violation of the antitrust laws, businessmen are promised a solid ruling in advance from the Common Market trustbusters. Equally important, the Common Market commission...
...result is apt to read like this: "I began a moment ago by implying there was something to say, something to be said, something to have said after half a century since the arrival of memory in my life, since the arrival therefore of myself into it. I have tried to say, I have meant to say, I have believed I might say, but I know I haven't said, and while it doesn't trouble me, or at any rate not violently, as it would have troubled me thirty-five years ago when I wanted...
Child actors are apt to lose the natural graces and harum-scarum spontaneity of real children, but Debbie Scott, Susan Towers and Philip Visco are unselfconsciously perfect, and except for a last-minute flurry of sentimentality, so is the play...
...interruption since the Santa Maria." He prophesied that 1962 "will mark the end of Salazar." The aging (72) dictator himself last week made one of his rare appearances before Parliament to deliver a speech, but an aide had to read it for him; in moments of strain, Salazar is apt to lose his voice, and after 33 years in power, the strain was beginning to tell on the world's senior dictator...
...brush, careful depiction of forms, "pleasing" application of color, and transmission and perpetuation of the masters. This sixth principle deeply influenced Chinese painting. Imitation of the great masters tends to become unimaginative repetition. There is no taboo on plagiarism in the East as in the West. The imitator was apt to become less forceful, further from the essential nature of the subject, as a result of his study of the masters. Continuities of style certainly mark Western art, too, but the variations have been more extreme and are not bound by the strict Chinese categories of subject matter for painting...