Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...shortage of courage on all sides in the budget talks provides a pointed reminder of Washington's failure to keep the S&L crisis from raging out of control in the 1980s. After deregulating the industry at the start of the decade, politicians looked the other way as reckless thrifts financed countless condominium blocks and office towers that now stand empty. Meanwhile, many questionable -- and sometimes criminal -- business practices were allowed to flourish. When bond salesmen for Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan went to work, a memo advised them: "Always remember the weak, meek and ignorant are always good...
Clearly, Shapiro had learned a lot from the way Giacometti's tiny figures could control the distances around them. Equally, part of his point was to challenge the idea that there was a "right" distance from which to see a sculpture. Should you get down on the floor with it and look for detail? But there was no detail, or not much. The sculptures were sitting in your space. So might you stand back and take in the general effect? But there was no general effect: the pieces were too small to produce one. Shapiro's little sculptures conspired...
Although a 2-1 victory wouldn't normally qualify as a taming, Harvard (2-2-0 overall, 0-2-0 Ivy) dominated the contest in terms of ball control...
...walk into a room and flood it with tranquility," says Michele S. Jaffe '91, who is the co-director of Peer Contraceptive Counsellors (PCC). "It's so wonderful to have her as an advisor. She's so completely unassuming and yet she's completely in control...I've learned a lot about dealing with people just from watching...
...fact, it is precisely because of the limits he places on his poetic demesne that Heaney gains an almost unlimited expressive control. For instead of moving outwards, he burrows "inwards and downwards," sifting the Irish soil and Irish soul for meaning and metaphor, retraversing locales and themes until the subtlest shifts and shadings take on great meaning. He delves, too, into his own and his country's past and finds them richly veined with continuities...