Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though as a woman she had to overcome prejudice in the past, Sawhill says, "All that is over now. In fact, discrimination today is probably in my favor." A chief concern since she took office in 1977 has been how to achieve price stability with full employment. "Ideologically I'm middle-of-the-road," she says. "There is no way to solve all problems through Government intervention...
...been allowed to do on such a scale before. It is architecture mimicking the strategies of Claes Oldenburg. What A T & T will eventually make of this high-camp, post-Pop irony performing as status monumentalism is anyone's guess, but that is what Johnson has produced, and the fact is emphasized by the top of the building-the now famous "grandfather clock" pediment with its round operculum, through which the heating system will issue clouds of steam on cold days. This is yet another historicist joke, alluding to one of Johnson's favorites from the past-Boullée, whose...
...nearest man Post-Modernism has to a senior partner is, in fact, the leading American architect of his generation: Philip Cortelyou Johnson. The firm of Johnson-Burgee has become to American architecture what McKim, Mead & White was 80 years before: the voice of authority, flavored with luxury. Johnson's critics see him as a brilliant opportunist capable of adapting to any regime of taste: in effect, the Anastas Mikoyan of architectural ideology. Certainly Johnson has, with dazzling skill, traversed the whole range of 20th century manners: from the idealistic severities of the International Style (whose name, as an architecture critic...
...Pope could sidestep this touchy issue by avoiding Puebla, but he has evidently never doubted the need to attend. He was guided in part by his interest in human rights and in part by the fact that some 300 million of the world's 700 million Catholics live in the region. As he observed in his Christmas address to the College of Cardinals: "Some say that the future of the church will be decided in Latin America, and there is some truth in that...
...bring the charges in the first place: "I feel terrifically saddened by the verdict and concerned about the future of women who have to live with marital violence daily." But other feminists were more optimistic. Despite the defeat, said Noreen Connell of the National Organization for Women, "the very fact that there has been such a case" means other married women will now be less hesitant to seek legal remedy if they are sexually assaulted by their husbands...