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...industry has become supercharged in the '90s. The restructuring that tormented America's companies--and especially its workers--in the early part of the decade has made firms brutally competitive. And the deregulation that began with airlines and trucking in the 1970s and '80s is bringing price pressure to bear on such once cozy fields as utilities and telecommunications. Says Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley's chief economist: "Deregulation is a critical dynamic in spreading the forces of competition...
...does not simply provide visitors a chance to look at one big, beautiful book. "There's more to Audubon than just the bird pictures," says Smithsonian Institution Libraries guest curator Helena Wright. The items she and her staff have assembled--many gathered from the Smithsonian's own holdings--certainly bear her out. An original copy of Audubon's less famous work on mammals, Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-48), demonstrates his astonishing range in art and natural science. Both are fields he mastered, as far as anyone can tell, by teaching himself...
...visit this show mounted in his honor, he might find it a trifle modest: two rooms filled with books, watercolors, excerpts from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire...
What the National Rifle Association member can't stand are attempts to repeal his right to bear arms...
...came to equate price with quality. For universities, this meant that they could raise tuition, and the market--namely parents--would bear it. Parents believed that the high priced education they were purchasing would translate into greater financial success for their children...