Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year became the longest-running show in Broadway history. A sort of downbeat reworking of Busby Berkeley's 1933 movie 42nd Street, in which a member of the ensemble suddenly becomes a star, Chorus Line depicts the ruthless process of casting a Broadway musical; it evolved from the actual experiences of its first performers. Although even weeknight tickets to the show cost as much as $45, many of the people auditioning for the film version have seen it onstage as often as other people go to ball games: Suzette Breitbart, a Queens, N.Y., high school student who has studied...
...percent of the Divinity School's budget came from interest on the endowment, but that figure has dropped steadily to 39 growth did that figure has dropped steadily to 39 percent for 1982-83, largely because endowment growth did not keep up with inflation. To insure that the actual value of the endowment does not drop, the school has had to spend less and less of the interest from the fund, which now stands at about $40 million...
...slow, too costly for both sides, and ultimately unsatisfactory, because reputation rather than monetary damages is usually what is at stake. Kaufman and other participants urged consideration of two major changes in libel law: elimination or sharp reduction of punitive damage awards in excess of a plaintiffs actual losses, and use of published retractions as part of a settlement...
...major alternative to punitive damages is retraction. In some states, if a publication concedes in print, with sufficient prominence, that a story was in error, then a plaintiff is limited to suing for actual damages; if the publication refuses to retract the story, however, it is vulnerable to suits for punitive damages. Conference participants acknowledged that negotiating a retraction could be almost as complex as a trial. Moreover, retraction rules can resemble unconstitutional coercion, warned New York City Attorney James Goodale, a former vice chairman of the New York Times Co. Said he: "Journalists perceive mandatory-retraction regulations...
...wardrobe to foster respectability, mocks her own professionalism. Her appearances at even minor occasions (say, a career seminar and Kennedy school panel discussions) with a surgically precise manicure; anchorwoman-perfect makeup; and topiaried coiffure, only magnify her self-consciousness. The incongruity between the Dress-for-Success-er's actual and contrived selves transforms her into a caricature of the Working Woman...