Word: outlook
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Still more important is the growing triumph of the minimal outlook. As artists are increasingly dedicated to the belief that "less is more," they are in stinctively drawn to those raw materials that least impede the eye. The clear sculpture that results is meant to afford the viewer a purely sensual delight in the infinite variety of light, its perpetual diffractions, spontaneous diffusions and prismatic permutations that can go on forever...
...chilling realization facing the diplomats at the conference is that free trade hasn't worked. In the last ten years, the gap between the rich countries and the poor has been growing. And unless change comes soon, the outlook for the future is even worse...
...House meanwhile marked time with procedural matters, awaiting the next round of the tax fight. Ways and Means Chairman Mills has consented to new hearings this week on the Administration's proposal for a surcharge, but the outlook for passage remains bleak. Even if Mills relents in his personal opposition to the measure, the sentiment in the House is now over whelmingly negative. Many in Congress believe that Johnson has been "cooking the books," as they say in the House of Commons, in order to make his spending and deficit forecasts seem smaller than they will actually turn...
...post-Revolution years they advocated easy liaisons. Many couples married themselves by "solemn agreements," while others, who had tired of their mates, merely called the district party chief and announced that they considered themselves divorced. Tiring came quickly in societies where privacy is almost impossible, diversions drab, and the outlook for the future grey and bleak. Nor did such prospects encourage bringing new lives into the world...
Such is the future of U.S. railroading, and so auspicious is the outlook for the Penn Central merger, that Stuart Saunders last week relaxed his customary aggressiveness. "I have heard it said that a long courtship makes for a happy marriage," said Saunders, as he looked back over the years of fuss and frustration, "and I hope that it is true, for it will surely mean eternal bliss for the Penn Central." Bliss, perhaps. But with Saunders running things, certainly not tranquillity. Honoring Saunders last week with its annual Benjamin Franklin award, Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club summed...