The instability of floating currencies was a barrier to harmonious trade, but schemes to peg exchange rates frequently had to be redrawn because few countries could consistently match the Bundesbank's anti-inflation zeal.
The figure-ground asymmetry in lightness found for preference ratings (r = +.14) was also present in harmony ratings (r = +.13, p <.001), in that pairs with lighter figures on darker grounds were rated as more harmonious than pairs with darker figures on lighter grounds.
Participants might have inferred from this that colors "should be" rated as harmonious to the extent that they are similar.
The participants hailed predominantly from fairly large, stable and harmonious family homes (83.1% rated parental relationship as good/excellent; 85.1% of parents lived together, and average sibling size was 6.3).
Combinations that contained lighter and less saturated colors tended to be rated as more harmonious.
The same is true for hues paired with their paint-complement (blue-orange and yellow-purple): paint-complement pairs were rated as reliably less harmonious than the same hues paired with the average of the two hues adjacent to their paint-complement [ F 1, 47) = 17.67, p <.001].
In some countries, like Italy, the trend has been largely harmonious, though politicians decry the falling birth rates it has caused.
These observations are harmonious with the suggestion of Wolfenden that the fact that many enzymes achieve rates approaching the diffusion limit suggests that they have evolved to recognize species that are reasonably populous in solution [ 19].
A credit crunch, a cooling growth rate and underwater construction loans all flew in the face of a stable, harmonious China, and threatened the newly minted middle class, looking for returns on its capital.
When the rate of intermarriage between two ethnic groups exceeds 10%, it is generally considered as an indicator of relatively harmonious interaction.
Fidelis Aglianico del Taburno 1999: $10 ** [Rating: Two Stars] Prial was enthusiastic about it, calling it harmonious and almost elegant.
