Word: turmoils
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...turmoil in financial markets has become a critical issue for both presidential candidates, and Harvard students’ concerns kept with national trends. Respondents gave the crisis 4.4 of 5 on a scale of importance (with 5 being “very important”), the highest rating among 10 commonly-discussed issues...
...company, which provides universal color standards for design industries and manufacturers worldwide, predicted two years ago that purple would be everywhere this fall. Eiseman sees the hybrid color as a reflection of "discontent and desire for change," a quarrel between cool blue (peace, hope) and warm red (passion, anger, turmoil...
...lineage as a sort of caricature; on aspiring, not to form in spite of experimentation, but experimentation in spite of form. The parameters and the expectations have become more apparent, but a sense of purpose or identity is startlingly absent.Few albums illustrate this dichotomy, or more precisely, the transitional turmoil that leads to it, more obviously than Deerhunter’s full-length debut, 2007’s “Cryptograms.” That album interchanged relatively light pop songs with long, carefully orchestrated instrumental passages, all covered in a fog of ambient fuzz. The term...
...have our own Steinbeck to distract us from the horrors of the market and the changes to our earth. Where are the Malcolm Xs, Janis Joplins, or Andy Warhols of today? Who will create the next “Guernica?” In the face of this social turmoil, where are the successors of our past artistic greatness?I am convinced that if the state of our country gets any worse, our art can only get better. I also do not doubt that the euphoria of an Obama victory could also be equally, if not more, stimulating?...
...economy - "much broader than anything I could have imagined." When the chief economic advisers to McCain and Obama met recently for a debate, they found little to agree on. But they shared the realization that the new President's options will be severely constrained by an economy in turmoil. Douglas Holtz-Eakin conceded that McCain's promise to balance the budget in four years is off the table. "The events of the past few months have completely thrown a wrench into that - there's no way round it," he said. Austan Goolsbee, who counsels Obama, spoke grimly of "the hole...