Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instrument for this was color, betokening light. Nice gave him a different light from Paris -- a high, constant effulgence with little gray in it, flooding broadly across sea, city and hills, producing luminous shadows and clear tonal structures. It encouraged Matisse to think of space (in particular, the space of the hotel rooms where he worked overlooking the Promenade des Anglais) as a light-filled box, full of reflections, transparencies and openings. Shutters filter the light, and their bars are echoed in the stripes of awnings or rugs; light is doubled by mirrors that break open the space...
Nowadays, however, Fowler presents himself as an independent-minded moderate rather than a down-the-line liberal. A former Army intelligence officer, Fowler has made military affairs a special interest, and on that subject he follows no particular ideological line. He has supported a nuclear freeze and strongly opposed the MX missile and B-1 bomber, largely because they drain away funds needed to maintain the readiness of conventional forces. But he is also an advocate of the Trident II submarine-launched missile and has voted for continued research on Star Wars while contending that the "important thing...
...line. Many reporters believe no previous Administration has been so efficient and disciplined at controlling the flow of information, concealing internal dissent, going after leakers and shutting down access: all to get its own version across. As Marvin Kalb of NBC's Meet the Press told the forum, "This particular Administration begins its day by deciding how it will look on television at 7 o'clock that night. All activity at the White House stops at 6:59, while the three buttons are hit so that they can see the success of their work in the course...
...studying genes, scientists deal basically with two components: one part supplies the code for the production of a particular protein, and the other, a sort of regulatory switch, turns the protein-producing mechanism on and off. In the human body, as in all organisms, every cell contains the complete genetic code and, in theory, has the potential to serve any function. A liver cell has the instructions necessary to grow hair, for example, and a bone cell to transmit information as a nerve does. The reason these things do not happen is that the instructions -- the genes -- are switched...
...postelection address and again on the radio Saturday, Reagan mentioned the need for further reforms in the budget process, in particular one that would give him a long-desired line-item veto over specific provisions of a spending bill. Given the new Senate lineup, this is now unlikely...