Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bank was hoping to reassure shareholders and financial markets, which are increasingly apprehensive over the colony's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Said he: "I do have confidence in the future of Hong Kong, but sadly I cannot convince others." Hong Kong's left-wing newspapers, which often reflect Beijing's views, accused the bank of abandoning the colony and damaging public confidence. Editorialized one of them: "The Hongkong bank wants to retain its privileges. It just doesn't want to accept any responsibility...
AMISH: THE ART OF THE QUILT by Robert Hughes (Knopf/Callaway; $100). These spare yet sumptuous squares reflect the cardinal virtues of their Amish makers: simplicity and practicality. Made between 1870 and 1950 in Lancaster County, Pa., they foreshadowed the geometric art of the '60s and the minimalism that followed. And unlike those paintings, they also keep you warm at night...
Last night, councillors said that city officials need to present a united front against the Scheme Z plan, and that individual department's assessment of the plan must reflect the council's overall stance...
According to the DEA, wholesale prices have risen across the nation. But it is not clear whether the increases reflect actual supply shortages or price gouging by traffickers playing on consumer fears. Los Angeles defense attorney David Kenner, who represents many alleged traffickers, maintains that "all the interdiction efforts do is keep profit margins high for the cartels." Robert Bonner, head of the DEA, warns against complacency: "There have been some rays of hope, but I'm not sure we are at the end of the beginning. I think we are still at the beginning...
...thought is we like to fund things that would not really happen otherwise," says James Pierson, executive director of the Olin Foundation, which supports a number of projects at Harvard. Some foundations, he says, will make money available in a particular field, hoping to move scholarship into areas that reflect the organization's goals...