Word: preservationist
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...Well, the museum is a preservationist institution. It’s acquiring things to hold, in trust, forever, for the benefit of the students, faculty and the public who come. Now, we hope that from most exhibitions of contemporary art we acquire something for the collection, but it’s the other parts of the museum that are meant to really build the collection. Contemporary art is meant to take more chances, see how things look, to put them in different relationships with each other and see how they hold up over time. So the museum is essentially...
...been the same for a long while. Stock market flat. Corporate earnings depressing. Capital spending by businesses - the collapse of which started this slowdown, and the resurgence of which must occur to finally end it - still in deep hibernation. Alan Greenspan slashing rates with the zeal of a self-preservationist, a half-point at a time, on five straight occasions. (Twice between meetings...
...wave of popular support - Koizumi comes in with a 65 percent approval rating - got the rebel this far. But having given Koizumi his shot, the calcified, self-preservationist LDP elders will not be as eager to watch him engineer their downfall. Koizumi, who likes to talk about changing Japanese elections to bypass the LDP machinery, started incurring factional wrath on his first day in office Friday with his old-guard-snubbing cabinet selections...
Even local preservationist G. Pebble Gifford,whose Harvard Square Defense Fund has battledcorporate encroachment by the likes of Dunkin'Donuts and McDonald's, was hardly non-plussed bynews of 7-Eleven's arrival...
Because Marcy Hawley is not only a preservationist but a parent as well, with a 16-year-old son at Wilmington High, the thin, cerebral publisher, who is married to the town's Presbyterian minister, has become a reluctant crusader for school reform. Serving on the local school system's Multicultural Advisory Board, she and other newcomers have been pushing for racial-sensitivity training and a minority-hiring program because the system, despite growing numbers of black, Hispanic, Japanese and Native American students, has just one nonwhite teacher...