Word: solider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solid is the global reinsurance system? No one really knows, but less solid than it ought to be. The 1970s run-up in interest rates attracted scores of companies that didn't understand the business, that were easy marks for unscrupulous operators and that had not established decades-long relationships of trust. "It used to be, the handshake applied to any kind of dispute, and you very rarely had disputes" -- as one reinsurance executive was recently quoted. "Things are more complicated today...
Good intentions do not automatically translate into solid education. Some of the many experiments could turn out to be disasters. But then, argue home schoolers, public schools already are disasters. "The assumption is that the socialization process at public schools is normal and good," says Stephen Moitozo. "I'll tell you what normal isn't. It isn't the same kids in the same room doing the same thing at the same rate in the same way to achieve the same results because they're the same...
Another sobering fact is that international support is not solid. Beginning with the Helsinki summit, the Soviets have indicated that they will support only a U.N. military action (which is subject to a Chinese veto). Also, they continue to connect Iraq-Kuwait and Israel-Palestinian issues...
Although organizers say they have high hopes for a strong turnout, they recognize that anti-war sentiment is still not very solid. And that realization has at least a few Harvard activists worried about the future...
...colors in his works are vivid and the forms solid but curvaceous. Forms rendered by line and those denoted by blocks of color are in a captivating interplay. One piece which exemplifies the interchange remarkably well is the 1947 work, Woman at a Window. The solid blocks of monochrome color are seen through the decisive black curves that define the nude figure. We cannot be certain that the figure is the subject matter of the work. We begin to suspect that the blocks of color--overpowering the transparent figure by virtue of their expansiveness and contrasting tones--are themselves...