In "Death by Gadget" (column, June 27), Nicholas D. Kristof paints a picture of continuing conflict in Congo that unfairly accuses the consumer electronics industry of complicity in this humanitarian crisis.
Although overall catch trends for invertebrate fisheries paint a picture of continuing expansion (Fig. 1B), catches in several groups (e.g., octopus and echinoderms) have slowed or declined in recent years (Fig. 2B and 2D).
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But the overall picture is one of continuing growth in the late 1990s.Between 1989 and 1998, gross flows of immigrants into America and into Europe (from outside the EU) were similar, relative to population size.
As the full effect of the crisis on savings and pensions becomes clearer, consumer activism is likely to rise.A glistering era endsAdd to this picture the drag of continuing losses from toxic assets and souring loans, and it is clear that as an industry, banks are going to find it much tougher to make money than before.
"But, the figures do begin to give us an accurate picture of the continuing cost of the reforms, the sums being spent on the new market in health services, and the flow of money to the private sector.
Top state officials go to church wearing the correct facial expression, but they lie, and in doing so they sin more than we ever did," Ms Tolokonnikova declaimed.Prison correspondence provides a vivid picture of the continuing awfulness of the Russian penal system, with its slave labour and dire conditions.
If history demonstrates that immigration trends fluctuate, can we really expect EB-5, albeit a microcosm of the broader immigration picture, to continue on a one-track path?
At times these kinds of side stories seem like elaborate tangents that do little to advance the plot, but the accumulated weight of lives lived creates the feeling of expansion described by E. M. Forster in one of the novel's epigraphs -- a sense of the picture continuing beyond the borders of the canvas.
A new art form was the picture tale: a continuing series of pictures carved on square stelae of stone.
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