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...Three Columns Gallery, this translates to bright strips of industrial colored tape arranged in fluid rainbows over and around the space’s surfaces. Carefully placed pipes serve to both anchor the striations and further contour and distort by geometric displacement...
...firms have agreed to stop paying bribes to win contracts. At the Davos World Economic Forum, the firms - including Hochtief of Germany, Swiss-based ABB and Skanska of Sweden - unveiled a set of principles aimed at eliminating bribery, contending that businesses themselves are hurt by rampant payoffs because they distort competition. "There is significant corruption in the industry," Alan Boeckmann, chief executive of U.S. construction giant Fluor, tells TIME. Some big players, including Bechtel and Halliburton - which last week fired two employees for allegedly taking $6 million in kickbacks from a Kuwaiti subcontractor - declined to participate, but with an accord...
...Saturday. The Doctor made it clear where he stood when he announced the vote Wednesday: Accepting the funds, he told supporters in New York, ?will cap our spending at $45 million, giving the Bush campaign a spending advantage of $170 million, which they will use to define and distort us from March to August...
...guitar playing, it shows a lot of variation. One of my favorite songs of all time is ‘Karma Police,’ because it manages to be haunting and depressing yet easy to listen to. The CD was written by Radiohead to show how machines distort people, so it has this sad nuclear fallout feel to it. Every song has a unique character, even though they all have a similar mood. It all has this piercing, haunting metallic sound to it, which is why I like...
...economists—even liberal ones—accept the fact that most taxes, including income taxes and payroll taxes, distort incentives to some degree. On this point, we are all Feldstein-ians now. But those taxes are justified to the extent that they provide the revenue needed to invest in public infrastructure and services...