Word: almosts
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...classical and modern in order to place one in the perspective of the other. A highly successful series, for example, featured the works of John Cage in tandem with those of Haydn. Cage, Elliott Carter and Hans Werner Henze have all served residencies in St. Paul. Almost half of the orchestra's selections are from the 20th century, and the majority of those are by American composers...
...accusing oilmen of trying to subvert Congress against the will of the people. In fact, Congress was never as opposed to the windfall tax as people had at first thought, and some form of tax seems almost certain to pass...
OPEC'S production cutbacks are aggravating the operational headaches. To begin with, not every refinery can process every grade of crude. From high-quality Nigerian oil that contains almost no sulfur at all to the heavy goo that glubs from the ground in Kuwait, petroleum covers a wide range of viscosities and weights. But not all refineries can handle every kind of oil, and as OPEC's squeeze has intensified, supplies of light oil used for gasoline have tightened...
...business side of the industry that they suspect. They fail to understand why prices keep going up, especially when the announcement of an OPEC production cutback or an increase in the cost of oil that is a month or more away by sea from the U.S. seems almost immediately to send the price of gasoline leaping at the pump...
Talk about double-entendre. For the big-production opening and closing numbers of Cinemactress Shirley Mac-Laine's television special, the Bluebells from Paris' famed Lido nightclub were called upon to dance two almost identical versions. Avec bras for U.S. television, a CBS special to be aired May 20. But then, performing before a sophisticated audience at the Lido that included Monaco's Princess Caroline and le Tout-Paris, the chorus danced the same routines sans bras for a later broadcast on European television. Vive les différences...