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Turning to another pattern, cubism brings together the American fascinations with the trivia and the inventive Cleverly designed, the cube appeals to a nation that is home to electric can openers, touch-tone phones, and canned hot shaving cream. Americans love garish toys tinged with plastic high tech and the ubiquitous "New, Improved!" label--skateboards with polyurethane wheels, very square exotica from a Hungarian mathematician...
...person is unmistakable" David Karen a sociology graduate student, said in an interview yesterday. The study, published in the Chicago weekly newspaper in These Times, found that the NBA racial pattern "is to showed" that it "would be very difficult to explain if racial factors were not operative in at least some cities," according to co-author Jerome B. Karabel, an associate of the Sociology Department...
Karabel and Karen did not conduct interviews with NBA or team officials, relying strictly on a statistical analysis of the racial men of teams and the general population. Yet the pair are confident that the pattern they observed cannot be explained by coincidence. "As observers we went in expecting to find a pattern, but we were quite surprises at finding out how strong the pattern was," Karen said...
...supply permitted by the Federal Reserve were forcing up rates. Regan maintained that rising rates, in turn, were fueling inflationary expectations on the part of investors and businessmen and, in the process, deepening and prolonging the recession. To bolster the point, Treasury aides produced charts showing a crazily careening pattern of growth and contraction in the U.S. money supply since last autumn...
These and other projected cuts continue the pattern begun by the fall cuts, a pattern which has already forced Harvard and most other private institutions to tighten their belts and begin looking around urgently for alternative ways of stretching their dwindling aid resources. The Ivy League Committee on Financial Aid resolved at a meeting this fall to scrutinize the mechanisms by which their admissions offices determine a family's contribution to tuition; they acted as much to help strapped families that might be unable to pay their evaluated fees under the new federal strictures, as to make sure the colleges...