Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While keeping watch on interest rates, Wall Street is also sensitive to the winds of politics. For the past two decades the financial markets have followed a pattern: stocks rise in a presidential election year. The increases range from 17.9% in 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, to 4.3% in 1968, when Richard Nixon won his first term...
...follows the same pattern as in Part One: balanced treatment of the historical dynamics behind each actor's position, followed by a much longer slap at American policy. We are told that the Cuban Missile Crisiy "probably contributed to the Soviets' decision to embark on the sustained accumulation of every category of weaponry: conventional and nuclear, battle-field range and globe-spanning, tanks, aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple...
...Political activism is simply being done in a way for students to balance their concerns with their personal goals, looking towards their future," Epps says. "It doesn't mean that in that sense they are more conservative. Activism has simply changed in pattern from the ways that dominated the early '70s and late...
...foreign country. "The Zouaves, the brothels, the adorable little Arlésiennes going to their first Communion, the priest in his surplice, who looks like a dangerous rhinoceros, the people drinking absinthe, all seem to me creatures from another world." In fact, his stay there began the general pattern of migration southward that would be as obligatory for early modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice, Derain to Collioure-as a stint among the marbles of Rome had been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing...
...been up to. As a draughts man, Van Gogh was obsessively interested in stylistic coherence. Just as one can movements of "his brush imitating the microform of nature-the scrawling striations of a gnarled olive trunk, the "Chinese" contortions of A weathered limestone-so the drawings break down the pattern of the landscape and re-establish it in terms of a varied, but still codified system of marks: dot, dash, stroke, slash. In his best drawings sur le motif, most of which belong to his second visit to Montmajour in July 1888, one sees how this open marking evokes light...