Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, some Administration officials fear that Congress, in its present impatient mood, could take severe action against Japanese imports. Anger at Japan's nontariff restrictions has been intensifying in both the U.S. and Europe. Congressional leaders have warned that unless Japan moves more quickly to cut its surplus, Congress will impose a 15% tariff surcharge on Japanese goods, and take other retaliatory steps. Says Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas: "I can see no good reason for the U.S. to commit economic harakiri on the altar of a bogus free-trade relationship...
...Farther afield, Carlson is negotiating with the Chinese to build a hotel in Peking. He has a particularly active period of growth planned for two recently acquired restaurant chains, TGI Friday's and Country Kitchen. Carlson aims to increase the Victorian-style TGI Friday's from the present 30 outlets to 55 by 1984 and add 100 outlets a year over the next five years to the 320-restaurant Country Kitchen chain...
...When good Americans die," said Oscar Wilde, "they go to Paris." For anyone who has not planned on the trip, there is the Comédie-Française, a glorious traveling museum that has been presenting French classical drama for 299 years and sees little sense in breaking up a winning combination. A fortnight ago the Comédie opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau...
...authors bypass the math and cut to the core, relating the theory's history, fundamental concepts, applications and elements of the current controversy. Although swallowing the theory without the math requires some suspension of disbelief, Woodcock and Davis manage to present a cogent summary and the reader is left with the feeling that he has at least a handhold on the material...
...explanation is so simplified, though, that one must take care not to relax his critical faculties. Although the authors attempt to offer an objective analysis, as advocates of the theory, they tend to be overenthusiastic. It's not that they do not present opposing views (which they do), it's just that Woodcock and Davis always get the last word. Every objection is countered, and for a while it seems as if catastrophe theory really is the successor to the calculus--until the authors present a series of applications of their own device. The reader's reaction to these examples...