Word: underwritten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expected demise of external tariffs sheltering the auto pact, after last month's World Trade Organization interim ruling that they discriminated against Japanese and other automakers. While Ottawa ponders whether to appeal the ruling, doomsayers are predicting the end of the "sweetheart" tariff holiday that they claim has underwritten Great Lakes prosperity for the past three decades. But the tariff ruling is probably irrelevant...
...larger, and there's more corporate sponsorship, you hear about it on the radio more. The organization itself is larger, and a few years ago when there was a cancellation, I assume that's because the conditions weren't that bad, but I think it was underwritten to protect some of the corporate sponsors from accidents, and it was left in the underwriters hands, and I think that's why they said no, because they thought they'd be too vulnerable...
...show is a straightforward trot through art and social history, aimed directly at a general, nonspecialist public--the kind of public the Whitney needs to reach if it is to recover from its long doldrums. Much is riding on the show's success or failure. Because it was underwritten by Intel, a great song and dance is made about the marvels of the websites and of getting people wired into art history. But it's the actual works of art, not their teensy digital clones, that count...
...from trade with other parts of Asia. They wanted conspicuous works of art and had the money to commission them. The demand for superfine objects, in which ordinary things like writing boxes or game boards were raised to the condition of art by means of exquisite decoration, was underwritten by the Japanese convention of giving gifts--as tribute, tokens of loyalty, signs of gratitude. The gift was a much more important social symbol in Japan than in the West, and the circulation of luxury objects fostered a level of design and craftsmanship that was, by modern Western standards, almost unimaginably...
Meet Joe Black tries to follow in the footsteps of Titanic as an overbudgeted attempt at epic romance. But where the latter had compelling, dramatic artistry compensating for underwritten characters, Meet Joe Black can't transcend its superficiality. The concluding "twist" offers the best example. Instead of proving that Susan really did find humanity and goodness in Death's dark soul, we only get final confirmation that she never really probed beneath his exterior...