Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve Cho '97 was captivating, but the otherwise bland ensemble writing made it impossible for the orchestra to advertise itself. This is mostly Liszt's fault, but things would have improved if the others had played with even a fraction of Sekino's drive. Her music-making seemed to grow out of a deep understanding of earlier influences on the concerto's temperament: Liszt's Funerailles, "Paganini" Etudes and Piano Sonata in B Minor...
...seismic changes Deng set in motion were daring, thrusting one-fifth of mankind in a Great Leap Outward from the crushing, dogmatic isolation of Maoism into a quasi-capitalist economic miracle. The China that comes after Deng will grow inexorably from the complex of roots he planted firmly in the nation's soil. Yet his work is unfinished, and the next China will have to come to terms with the fundamental contradiction in his hybrid creation. Even as the country embarked on a headlong pursuit of free-market economics, Deng insisted it be done under the iron fist...
...question is whether a new tax program announced by the government--equivalent to a whopping 2% of GDP--is too strong a medicine. If not, said Courtis, "in six to nine months there will be a dramatic turnaround in the Japanese trade position, the export sector will grow, and investors will see the budget deficit getting much bigger." But Courtis warned the plan could backfire: "The Japan problem isn't over. If they raise taxes too much, the economy is going to crater...
...individual human being becomes a human being when it becomes a being. That is because things do not become other things as they grow--they continue to be the same thing, just at a later stage of development. Our growth and maturation, both inside and outside the womb, is the continuation of the same being, not a transformation into a different species. I did not come from a fetus, but I once was a fetus. I did not come from an infant, but was once an infant. Conception marks the beginning an individual's human life because that...
...think that this unprecedented expansion means we have entered a new, recession-proof age: "History is strewn with visions of new eras that in the end have proven to be a mirage. Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time." Now that he has repeated his concern about soaring stock prices, the financial community will wait anxiously to see if he will take action to back up these words...