Word: acted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ACT II, SCENE...
...ACT III At the Amati residence, Giovanna stands at a second-floor window whining for the imprisoned Daniel. She sings Talvolta quando piancevo (Sometimes when I cried...
...self-defense can be difficult. In Cordele, Ga. (pop. 12,100), for example, the local prosecutor did not see fit to bring a charge of manslaughter against a store owner who responded to small thefts from his cigarette machine by booby-trapping it after business hours with dynamite, an act that resulted in the death of a teen-aged tamperer. But a court awarded civil damages to the boy's mother. Traditionally, though, juries asked to consider burglars' rights sympathize with the property owners rather than the intruders. It may be only a matter of time before a dramatic case...
Some companies still consider a refusal to transfer to be an act of disloyalty that can ruin a promising career. But most firms are becoming more understanding, and some are willing to make special arrangements. After Jo Anne Kaiser, 28, a former Bonwit Teller buyer, refused to leave her new home in Orlando, Fla., for a headquarters job in Miami, Burdine's, a big department-store chain, agreed to a setup by which she spends only two days a week in Miami and goes to New York on buying trips every six weeks. Says Celanese's Wall...
What we should do, he says, is enact ambitious but limited ones. Jones asks fellow businessmen to support the CETA (for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) programs, which subsidize companies to hire and train the unskilled young. He applauds Carter's call for $400 million in the '79 budget to expand that work...