Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan and the Europeans and could well represent the hope for the future. In particular, Japan's emphasis on high technology and cooperation between the government and private industry should serve as a model for the West. High technology creates new industries to replace the old, dying ones like steel and automobiles that simply can not be salvaged. Government-private sector cooperation allows for flexible long-term planning, essential if the shortcomings of the market system are to be rectified...
...permanent collections of such museums at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim and Whitney and the Hirschorn museum in Washington. Run your hand over his 64 inch bronze. "Thebes III" currently on exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality to them, as if they were made of the earth. The bronze doors on St. Paul's Church in Rome are his, and his monumental pieces stand in New York's Lincoln Center, outside Boston City Hall...
...finished form is still a year away, but in his studio a half-size cardboard model made by Hadzi's assistant Romolo Deldeo '82 stands as a preview. Once again, three posts of different colored six-foot tall granite blocks act as a base for stainless steel units on top. With what Hadzi calls a "mysterious, mystical effect," water will come out the top, disappear into the stainless steel, and electrically recycle itself. The water never reaches the ground...
...centrist Social Democratic Party-Liberal Alliance was less visible on the hustings, though still hopeful of re-establishing itself as a strong third force. Like some of his colleagues, S.D.P. Leader Roy Jenkins, 62, was concentrating on defending his own marginal seat in Glasgow. Liberal Party Leader David Steel, 45, who has a safe seat, made up for Jenkins' absence, gathering mileage for the Alliance as he traveled the country in his colorful campaign "battlebus." "What chance is there that a new Britain can be built by the old parties," he asked a Scottish audience, "one of whom draws...
...criticisms, Thatcher has been surging ahead in surveys that rank the rival party leaders by preference as "the best Prime Minister": she scores 48%, vs. 22% for Steel, 16% for Foot and 7% for Jenkins. Much of this, another poll notes, stems from the fact that Britons are preparing to vote for negative rather than positive reasons, against Foot rather than for Thatcher. Certainly one of her biggest allies is Labor's weakness...