Word: jigsaw
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...Those challenges are always there. "The jigsaw is never complete," says the RBA chief. What's new, however, is that the risk of error - doing too little or too much, acting too late or too soon - is now greater. Monetary policy is such a potent tool these days because of the record level of household debt and the cost to service it: $1 out of every $10.75 in disposable income is eaten up by interest payments. That's higher than in the late '80s when home mortgage rates were 17%, compared to around 7% nowadays. If rates rise, it doesn...
...living room of Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, is a place for thinking. There are big windows with long views, a wall of books and on one side a table that is usually freckled with jigsaw pieces. It was a few days after New Year's in 2003. The President had been out clearing cedar, and Laura Bush was lying on a sofa reading, or at least pretending to. That Christmas holiday was a deep breath between the 2002 midterm elections and the walk-up to the war in Iraq. Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush re-election...
...architecture, Ying Zao Fa Shi, which taught the pure assembly of standardized elements. His solution was to construct the shells from prefabricated segments of the one sphere, so they could be self-supporting. Utzon had just standardized his plywood interiors, which were to be "assembled like a big jigsaw puzzle in space," when his relationship with the N.S.W. government broke down and he resigned. During the '70s, Utzon would go on to perfect his "additive architecture" with the box-like Bagsvaerd Church and the modular Kuwait National Assembly, though in recent years his design has become sparer. A building should...
...Each concert is like a piece of a jigsaw puzzle,” Levine says. “You can’t get it in one hearing...
...academy, as well as several twin-bed "art rooms" designed by young, up-and-coming conceptualists. There's everything from the stark sculpture of Nicolas Touron, who has covered the walls of room 407 with 600 kg of "crooked ceramic objects," to the installations of Orna Wertman, whose giant jigsaw puzzles-cum-installations plaster room 503. In hotels like these, life does indeed imitate art. tel: (31?20) 623 1380; www.winston.nl