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Another important variable is whether recent improvements in U.S. productivity will continue in 1994. Productivity, which measures the hourly output of workers, had increased less than 1% a year for most of the 1980s, hurting U.S. competitiveness. But productivity grew a healthy 1.5% last year, after surging about 3% in...
Lawrence called his style "dynamic Cubism," but although its debt to late Cubism is obvious -- the flat, sharp overlaps of form, legible silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject...
/ Ideas come fast to Joshua Redman. On The Deserving Many, a song from the young tenor saxophonist's fine new album, Wish, he starts off with a few buoyant, tinkling notes, then suddenly scatters them into a jagged, descending riff, surging along it at breakneck speed. Then, quickly interweaving a...
What of the present and the future? Armstrong notes the ever-growing strength of secularism, which makes it possible for more and more people to think of God as an idea that belongs to the past. She also notes in all three faiths a surging counterrevolutionary fundamentalism that to her...
Kasparov had his own reasons for warming to the idea. His resentments against FIDE date back to the mid-1980s, when he was challenging his compatriot Karpov for the world title. After an epochal, 48-game struggle, with Kasparov surging from behind and Karpov near collapse, FIDE president Florencio Campomanes...