The Met show documents, through art, the emotional devastation experienced by certain Chinese painters when, in the mid-17th century, the Ming Dynasty fell to the foreign Manchu powers that became the Qing dynasty.
More controversially, he also defended the provisions for emergency presidential powers that became Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution.
Lerner demonstrated how high employment rates can contribute to inflation (supply fails to meet high demand, causing prices to rise), and he created a method of grading monopoly power that became known as the Lerner Index.
The group will land in Cuba on April 17, the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the American attempt to drive Fidel Castro from power that became a synonym for any botched effort.
Why do many stories — like one about a protest he led, while a student at Lincoln University, against poor campus health services; or one about his involvement with the 1979 concerts against nuclear power that became the album and film "No Nukes" — slide into vagueness, as if the outcomes weren't important?
As rain tapped at the windows of the train, Benita and her team discussed "Borgen," a Danish TV show about the idealistic female leader of a tiny political party swept into power that became an unlikely cult hit among wonks in London.
Thatcher was a vital force in reviving British competitiveness, but she abetted a concentration of press power that became increasingly arrogant and careless of human dignity in ways that would have appalled her, had she remained in good health long enough to understand what her actions had wrought.
"In this sense, World War I was the laboratory or crucible for the establishment of tactics and technology for air power that became central to military force deployment in World War II and after".
The genius move, the alchemical move, is to flip this from a negative to a positive, while retaining the negative as a threatening, hidden power (that becomes overt with the gun and grenade).
Much of today's basic needs — sewage, power and things like that — become heavily obstructed once they're up and running.
