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...Fischer (an American). They report to a 24-person international executive board. The IMF staff is small--just 1,100 professionals, including 759 economists--only one-fifth the size of its sister agency the World Bank, which was established at the same time and funds development projects in the Third World...
...tract of scribbled green grass on the right). Second, Diebenkorn's decisiveness about tonal structure and the way sharp contrast can be used both to hollow out the space of the painting and to create a firm, flat pattern. And third, a breezy lyricism of feeling that was especially Diebenkorn's, an exhilaration at the material fullness of the world, translated into terms of pigment...
...Driven to Destruction Be careful crossing the road in 2020: car crashes look set to become the world?s third most common cause of death in the 21st century...
...reduction target. Europe scoffed at that one, claiming it was a bid to get America off the climate change hook. But what of the 5 percent plan? Are both proposals being offered simultaneously? Throw in the presence of Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska, who spent his day threatening Third World representatives, and you have a recipe for palpable confusion...
...they're grown, they will be three times more likely to be killed on the road. "Traffic-related injuries and deaths are growing worldwide at an alarming rate," Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater warned Tuesday. A new report from statisticians in Sweden expects traffic-related crashes to become the world's third most common cause of death by 2020 ? nipping at the heels of heart failure and "major depression" as the top ways...