Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discomfited by the changes. An older generation regrets the passing of ancient traditions, and nearly everyone fears inflation, which was virtually unknown for more than 30 years but is now a growing problem. The result has been a continuing battle for China's next century, with reformers desiring relatively rapid modernization and conservatives advocating a more cautious approach...
...Boston last September for the Seventh Annual National Microbrewers Conference, Charlie Papazian, director of the Boulder-based Association of Brewers, conjectured that the U.S. might have 150 microbreweries and brew pubs by the end of 1988 and perhaps 500 breweries within the next decade. Papazian notes that the rapid growth poses no threat to the big producers, but rather may cut into the 4.5% market share enjoyed by imports. "Large brewers realize that the microphenomenon is bringing a tremendous vitality to the brewing industry, and if they feel that they need to change their recipes a bit, they will." Some...
...subjects of this show are mostly dancers and jugglers, manipulators of the fleeting instant in whose work Rothenberg detects a familiar cultural pathos, distantly related to Picasso's circus folks but less sentimental. Most of them are in rapid movement, spinning, doing plies and tossing eggs, and this contrasts oddly with the way they are painted. True, Rothenberg always liked to play on contradictions between the quick, snapshot nature of her chosen image (a galloping horse, a teetering bicyclist, Mondrian solemnly turning like a mantis on the dance floor) and the nuanced and obviously slow way it was presented...
...Federal Reserve Board, the soft-spoken economic forecaster is the ultimate arbiter of the nation's credit supply and thus of the interest rates at which money is lent throughout the U.S. banking system. On the job less than three months, Greenspan is suddenly being forced to make rapid and delicate decisions to prevent the market crash from turning into a mushrooming financial collapse and to stave off a steep recession. Says Charles Schultze, who was chairman of President Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers: "Greenspan is in a very difficult period in which he is truly being tested...
...orders for the police to take down illegal strike barricades immediately. She castigated the military mutineers who sparked the current crisis with their nearly successful August uprising. "They fought me, I fought back. Surrender would have been neater, but it is not in me to yield." As she issued rapid- fire orders for road repair, garbage collection, telephone-line maintenance and an end to the constant power brownouts that afflict the capital, her listeners interrupted the speech with at least 27 rounds of applause...