Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fresh and refreshingly feckless designs of Sybilla, 25, of Madrid, and Dirk Bikkembergs, 29, of Antwerp, have mostly their brio in common. There is no serious risk that anyone would ever get their labels switched. Bikkembergs works out of a small, somewhat dilapidated studio, where he turns out a line of men's clothing that alternates between the sober gray severity of sweatsuit-style knitwear and the giddy excesses of retro-hippie sports clothes. Sybilla, who designs in a "dream house" atelier in Spain's sunny capital, makes mischievous, inventively styled fashions for women that work from no fixed stylistic...
...into products that are reliable, reasonably priced and directed toward the needs of consumers. "America is probably the world's greatest innovator nation," says Robert White, president of the National Academy of Engineering, "but we don't have the ability to capture the benefits of those scientific discoveries." The risk is that the U.S. will lose its competitive advantage even before the marketing contest has begun...
...riots left Liberty City among the least redeemable pieces of real estate in the nation. No private investor in his right mind would risk opening a business on Seventh Avenue, where a looted Pantry Pride grocery hulked on the corner, a symbol of the destruction. Unless local officials did something "very different and dramatic," warned Otis Pitts, Liberty City would erupt again...
This sudden, inexplicable eruption of violence typifies what many find troubling about Oates' fiction. If the purpose of art is to provide a comprehensible context, an explanatory train of circumstances, for human activity, then Oates certainly falls short. She knows this risk and consistently runs it anyhow. Her obsession remains the untidy world where everyone actually lives, where headlines daily scream out the unthinkable and where nice people find themselves behaving in ways they can barely imagine, much less condone. The McCulloughs' marriage, despite outward appearances, is far from perfect; the author deftly reveals the stresses and fault lines that...
...entering its seventh year, the expansion is straining against a shortage of workers and plant capacity. According to economists surveyed by Time, the resulting inflationary pressures will force the Federal Reserve to restrict growth. But the risk is that the Fed will hit the brakes too hard and put the economy into a stall. -- A stock scandal exposes the cozy ties among Japan' s power elite...