Word: think
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First, the countries of Latin America must make concerted efforts among / themselves, then coordinate with other developing countries so as to enhance our bargaining power. There is a need for a new North-South summit that would deal with some issues involving the security of the whole world. I think we have to recognize that today's problems are global and that interdependence is both a problem and a solution. That's a central theme, and it's why a North- South conference is indispensable...
...think so. That tremendous social explosion came about because of the dammed-up frustration of the past eight years, the decline in living standards. Now, this year, in Venezuela we're going to have a dramatic drop, almost 10%, in our gross national product as a result of our adjustment measures. If we don't straighten out this situation, if we don't have the resources to confront this violent decline, the social situation will reach intolerable extremes. And it's not just us; all the countries of Latin America are suffering...
...Armstrong, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, has a further worry: the growth of private, or vanity, museums. Some American collectors of contemporary art, he points out, think of themselves as institutions, and this would make them reluctant to donate art to a museum even if the tax laws had not been changed. They do not crave the imprint of the established museum. They want the Jerome and Mandy Rumpelstiltskin Foundation for Contemporary...
...fact must be conspicuously disclosed in the auctioneer's catalog." But did this mean that Sotheby's put a note in the catalog of its November 1987 sale saying it had given one Alan Bond a loan of half the hammer price, repayment terms to be negotiated, on Irises? Think again...
...setting up an independent regulator -- an art- industry Securities and Exchange Commission? Not before hell freezes over, say the auction houses (although Christie's may be wavering a little on the point, since it has no guarantee and loan system to defend). Probably not, say many dealers. But others think the idea is worth serious thought, though none believe it likely to happen while Washington still clings to the conservative catchword of deregulation. Besides, says Eugene Thaw, the doyen of U.S. private dealers, Sotheby's in particular may have enough political clout in New York to defeat a further tightening...