Word: clear
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...pace. In the U.S., nothing captures the concussive force of the downturn better than the Consumer Price Index released Wednesday, which showed prices falling 1% in October after being flat in September. Suddenly, the prospect of outright deflation in the U.S. - and all the risks that entails - is a clear and present danger. "With the unemployment lines growing ever longer, there is a genuine risk that the U.S. economy could fall into a corrosive deflationary phase," says Sheryl King, senior U.S. economist at Merrill Lynch...
...heads as I pressed them to confirm that cow spots (“You mean black spots on white? Like ‘moo’?”) are indeed fashionable in Japan. Maybe they were hinting at leather, but regardless, the Hakuoh High School girls made it clear that they thought American and Asian dress are different. Later that day, I attended a luncheon with several Asian designers who had recently graduated from Parsons School of Design. Angela Gao—who completed her thesis collection last May and recently released her ready...
...university is committed to technology and communications. It’s a different question how committed they’ve become to the study of these issues because even at a place as large and interdisciplinary as Harvard, disciplines drive a college and it’s not clear how disciplines, especially the liberal arts, will respond to this challenge...
...show footage, air disasters, tight-rope walkers, and myriad other images, set to the sounds of Ottorino Respighi’s “The Pines of Rome.” Its narrative framework, to the extent that there is one, is fleeting. Conner takes pains to thwart any clear interpretation, but motifs of modern warfare, performitivity, the Freudian return to the womb, and the sex and death drives all figure heavily in “A Movie.”It’s difficult, well-nigh impossible, to summarize satisfactorily the vision or intention behind any of Conner?...
...threats by the North and pressure by the South to stop the launches. On Nov. 12, North Korea threatened it would shut the inter-Korean border within weeks. South Korea's Unification Ministry said North Korea, which has tolerated similar propaganda leaflets being floated in past years, made it clear that it would not accept messages saying the Dear Leader's days are numbered. Now, Pyongyang is blaming Seoul for failing to keep its activists in check...