Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, an indication of our overall success is that since 1960 industrial production has increased more than 3 1/2 times, agricultural production has nearly doubled and national income has nearly trebled. That we have held ground, particularly in the past five years, is, I think, of no less significance. In the past few years we have stood the test of unfavorable international economic conditions, halted the process of accumulating debts, preserved the country's solvency, and even slightly improved upon our achievements. It proves that the political and economic foundations of our society are firm. When accounting for these results...
...invention, but also remembering. It is never in a real artist's interest to "abolish" the past, which is impossible anyway. Boccioni, in particular, kept paying it homage: his striding bronze figure in space, included in the Venice show, alludes to the same Victory of Samothrace that Marinetti thought less beautiful than a car; the figures who scurry frantically about the two battling women in the Milan Galleria in his Riot at the Gallery, 1910, look like the ghostly crowds in the background of Tintorettos. What the futurists opposed was not so much the past itself as the mind...
...Secretary took Poindexter's side; he wanted a clear statement of support for the policies he was due to defend on Capitol Hill the following day. Also, the Administration did not want the U.S. to get ahead of its Western allies on the sanctions issue, and Reagan in particular wanted to show his solidarity with his friend British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Western leader most outspoken against sanctions...
...Tradesmen and other blue- collar workers tend to be highly resentful of automated supervision and frequently find ways to circumvent or sabotage it. Harley Shaiken, associate professor of labor and technology at the University of California at San Diego, tells in his 1984 book Work Transformed that in one particular factory, workers learned to fool the computer monitor by leaving the motors on their machines running even when the operators were away on extended coffee breaks. In the end, though, the computer caught up with them by detecting that the idling machines were using less electricity than normal...
...burden on the plaintiffs' freedom of religion but also that there is no overriding governmental interest to justify using the books. In a 1968 case, Epperson vs. Arkansas, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that it would look with disfavor on attempts by the state to cater to one particular religion. "There is and can be no doubt," the Justices said, "that the First Amendment does not permit the state to require that teaching and learning must be tailored to the principles or prohibitions of any religious sect or dogma." Ironically, the reasoning was used to strike down an Arkansas statute...