crosscurrents

Another challenge on the June agenda is how to communicate Fed thinking about the complex set of "crosscurrents," as one official describes it.

Fed to Keep Lid on Bond Buys 2009

Besides finding this ambivalent, she refers to the two factoids as "crosscurrents".

Fractions are Hard 2007

Besides finding this ambivalent, she refers to the two factoids as "crosscurrents".

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

The Fed for now looks unlikely to make a bold move later this month as it plots its strategies for 2012 amid the crosscurrents in the economy.

Jobless Rate Nears Three-Year Low Ben Casselman 2011

For centuries, artists painted religious figures, whether saints or gods and goddesses, then still lifes -- arguably with religious aspects present -- moving into landscapes and portraits of the high and low born, before the crosscurrents of popular culture opened the more psychological frontiers, with Surrealism, Symbolism and Abstract Expressionism taking the forefront.

Lisa Derrick: Retro Cool Pop Art at the Palms this Weekend: Rare Exhibit of MidCentury Modern and MC-Influenced Fine Art Lisa Derrick 2010

More recent occupations--the British in India, the Americans in Japan and Korea, the Soviets in Eastern Europe, the Europeans in Africa, the Israelis in Palestine--have generated their own cultural crosscurrents, some yet to peak, flourish, or be accepted by the formerly- or still- occupied populations.

G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011

More recent occupations--the British in India, the Americans in Japan and Korea, the Soviets in Eastern Europe, the Europeans in Africa, the Israelis in Palestine--have generated their own cultural crosscurrents, some yet to peak, flourish, or be accepted by the formerly- or still- occupied populations.

G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011

We drop down the tongue as planned, but at the tip, two recirculating crosscurrents bounce the boat like a ping pong ball in a pot of boiling water.

Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011

The conflicting signals from the White House about its commitment to gay issues reflect a broader paradox: even as cultural acceptance of homosexuality increases across the country, the politics of gay rights remains full of crosscurrents.

Sunday Reading 2009

Above them, the violins and violas hurl their musical figures against the regular pulse, generating agitated crosscurrents.

New Work, New Instrument Stuart Isacoff 2011