Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FORMAL interests of the Expressionists have often been obscured by their subject matter. This is especially true of artists such as Meidner, whose violently agitated scenes of streets, explosions and factories, executed between 1910 and 1915, earned him a reputation as a prophet of the Apocalypse. The drawings show, rather, a draftsman concerned with the language of marks on paper. The series of Street Scenes have an abstract life created by their patterns of broken lines and jagged chips of ink. Meidner seems to have translated the textures of wood block into pen-and-ink. The result is powerful...
...monetary authorities-including the Federal Reserve Board and the Comptroller of the Currency-should use their influence to persuade major U.S. banks to rein in the particularly openhanded lending policies of their foreign branches, especially in places like the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. At present these branches are subject to few of the checks that the Government places on banks located...
Erdman comes to his subject with the sure hand of one who knows, from the inside, what lurks in the hearts of financial razzle-dazzle artists. A graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign service, he picked up a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel in 1957, then landed a job doing long-range forecasting for the Stanford Research Institute. Later he became a V.P. for a Bermuda-based investment company, then a co-founder of a small Swiss bank. The bank flourished, was subsequently bought out by United California Bank, and Erdman found himself wheeling...
...scope of McCullough's book is enormous: he illuminates the arenas of politics, finances, science, engineering and sociology. He moves through his subject like one of those 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovels that gnawed their way across Panama. Facts are turned up by the cubic yard, sorted and arranged into a smooth, efficient narrative. Statistics sometimes tend to overwhelm the reader, but there are moments when numbers become all too human. Said one West Indian laborer about the frequent dynamite accidents: "The flesh of men flew in the air like birds many days...
Decisions such as these profoundly affect the interests of the buying public. But without some formal or institutionalized means of representing consumers' interests in the day-to-day operations of the government, many of these decisions will be made subject only to the influence of organized and well-financed business interest groups. Pro-business regulations often will be established, not because congressmen are sinister or because bureaucrats have been bribed, but because only one side of the story is being told...