Word: form
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Giulio's other work, may have come from a classical prototype: the spintriae, or tokens, stamped with obscene designs that were used for entry to Roman brothels in the second century A.D. The engraver Marcantonio Raimondi turned Giulio's I Modi (Ways, for short) into prints, and in this form they became enormously popular. They are still the most famous examples of visual pornography in Western art, although four centuries of attrition by prudery have destroyed almost all of them...
...minute differences in prices. But program trading incited a Wall Street revolt last week as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 92.42 points to 2596.72. Faced with pressure from investors, the firms Bear, Stearns and Morgan Stanley said they will halt the use of index arbitrage, the most popular form of the | strategy. A third firm, PaineWebber, scrapped all forms of program trading...
...trip laden with symbolism, Gorbachev visited neighboring Finland, a dexterous nation that has maintained friendly relations with Moscow while retaining political and economic independence. "Finlandization" used to be derided as a form of latter-day appeasement that might infect Western Europe; now it is considered a model for the relationship that Poland or Hungary could achieve...
There can be only one answer now: yes, emphatically yes. Earlier this year, after Poland's Communists lost the most open elections since World War II but tried nevertheless to thwart Solidarity's effort to form a government, Gorbachev spoke by phone to the Communist Party leader, who subsequently backed down. Gorbachev has also provided public approval to the Hungarian reformers. In summing up a Warsaw Pact meeting in Bucharest last July, he pronounced: "Each people determines the future of its own country and chooses its own form of society. There must be no interference from outside, no matter what...
...first six months of the Bush Administration, agnosticism about Gorbachev was an article of faith. White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater went so far as to call him "a drugstore cowboy." Moreover, it was virtually taboo to use any form of the verb "to help" in the same sentence with Gorbachev. Senate Democratic leader George Mitchell accused the Bush Administration of "status quo thinking" and exhibiting an "almost passive stance." Bush's attitude began to change when he visited Poland and Hungary in July. His hosts impressed on him that their survival, not to mention their success, depended on Gorbachev...