Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mystery, of course, is why. Why there, why now? Who has a reason, however perverse? What do they gain from this carnage? In the earlier era of terrorism, the years of skyjackings and Lebanese horrors, the purpose was usually obvious, a bloody form of bargaining, and the perpetrators trumpeted their responsibility; the message got across only if it was signed. But more recent practitioners, like the men who leveled an American military barracks in Saudi Arabia two years ago or set off a bomb at the Atlanta Olympic Games, rarely call in with their names or seek a discernible result...
Never before have stocks been so important a form of wealth for so many Americans, whether they hold shares directly or through mutual funds and 401(k) accounts. Forty-three percent of adult Americans hold stocks, the broadest ownership ever. And Chris Varvares, president of the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, traces more than one-third of the growth of consumer spending last year directly to the wealth effect. Economists calculate that investors tend to spend about 4 [cents] of every dollar they gain in stock-market wealth...
Many people--almost 8 to 10 percent of the malepopulation--are born without normal color vision.This form of color blindness is due to defects inthe retina...
Thanks for your accurate portrait of Nigeria's political tragedy [WORLD, July 20]. We should observe a moment of silence for both General Sani Abacha and Chief Moshood Abiola, for they were my fellow Nigerians. The 18th century English writer Alexander Pope wrote, "For forms of government, let fools contest; whate'er is best administer'd is the best..." The fault lies not so much in Nigeria's form of government as in our selfish nature as Nigerians. ANTHONY A. AIYA-OBA Boston...
...music with mainly routine orchestration." Because of their melodic fecundity and power, they remain widely performed and recorded. Still, conductors from Gustav Mahler to George Szell have edited their working scores, attempting to compensate for Schumann's putative deficiencies: amateurish orchestration; opaque, overdense textures; a shaky grasp of symphonic form...