Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joining a recent nationwide wave of anti apartheid activity. Boston area demonstrators--including a number of prominent local politicians, union leaders, and university professors--have been staging a spate of highly visible protests...
...interest rates fall. As a result, by last week a bidding contest was under way as banks rushed to drop the prime rate that they charge corporate borrowers. First New York's Citibank led a group of institutions that lowered their prime from 11.75% to 11.50%. Then another wave of banks, including Chase Manhattan and San Francisco's Bank of America, pushed the prime down...
Each rumor sends a shock wave through Washington. Veterans' groups protested when stories appeared suggesting that their hospital benefits would be cut. Government employees cried out when it was reported that their pension increases would be modified downward. Farm lobbies screamed over the possibility that subsidies would be hacked. Education groups rallied against the hint that Reagan would try again to eliminate the Department of Education. "The best thing to do," declared a member of the Business Roundtable, "is pull up a chair and watch the poker game." It is some game...
Predictably, the announcement touched off a national wave of panic buying and hoarding. As soon as it became apparent that prices on 90% of the nation's output would be allowed to float, such products as fish, milk and woolens either became more costly or vanished in some parts of China. Eggs, which had been in plentiful supply, disappeared from state-run stores; they remained available, but expensive, on the free market...
...change reflects new fashions in art. Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture...