Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commanding teacher Hans Hofmann preached what he called the "push-pull" theory of colors in tension-and practiced it to perfection. De Kooning restored the name of action to artistic thought, slashing at his canvases with inspired passion. David Smith took the grand gesture to sculpture, mounting one stainless steel shaft upon another in marvels of cliff-hanger balance. Later artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella solidified and emboldened color and clipped its ragged edges, while Morris Louis thinned his paints to the consistency of water and sent them streaming over unprimed canvas in free-flow...
...securities-the Federal Reserve controls the supply of credit and the level of interest rates. It thus largely determines how much interest the consumer must pay to borrow for a new house or car, how much the businessman must pay to borrow for a new hamburger stand or a steel mill-and whether many kinds of loans will be available at all. By influencing the rate of business expansion, the board also helps decide the worker's chances of finding a job or winning a raise and the corporate executive's chances of making a price increase stick...
...GOVERNOR'S LADY by Norman Collins. 381 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.95. The colonials, the natives, and death on safari in Africa of the 1930s, including a governor with a steel-claw hand and scruples to match...
...Liberia is another good example. It is sustained largely by foreign investment, Firestone and Beth Steel. We had to tool up the Liberians to become effective bargainers with the main concessionaires. We taught them quite a lot about corporate tax practices. We gave them seminars, went through contracts with them, and showed them how to get more government revenue to speed internal growth...
...Clark financed the project himself, and constructed it in the basement of the Harvard biology laboratories. It is basically a welded steel frame the size of a single bed, covered by a thin plastic dome. The dome is supported by a nylon net. It is designed to be installed by two or three divers...