Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have campaigned to end the interest rate ceilings and the differential. But savings banks and savings and loan associations will fight fiercely to keep their little competitive extra. Already they are hurting. Outflows from their coffers into higher-yielding short-term securities amounted to more than $2 billion in April. Earnings for savings institutions are expected to be down...
...agreement with the banks, sold off most of the company's foreign operations and raised $250 million from a public offering of preferred stock. Now there is little left to sell, and Moody's and Standard & Poor's downgraded the company's credit rating in April...
...revolutionary government. They are insisting on 50% to 100% wage increases and are threatening to walk out if they do not get them. Members of the workers' council have been demanding sweeping changes in management. But when NIOC Chief Hassan Nazih fired six of the top directors in April, the rest of the top management resigned en masse in protest, forcing Nazih abjectly to ask everyone back. The refinery simply could not run without them. The workers then immediately voted to strike, but agreed to put off a walkout pending further talks with Nazih or his representatives...
Home Again was actually about a young man who goes out in the world to seek his fortune, gets married, has kids, moves to the suburbs, etc., etc. It foundered expensively in Toronto and was mercy-killed in April, just before its scheduled Broadway opening. The experience is instructive, "like being lost in a bog," Baker says. "I saw other musicals last year and sometimes asked myself, 'Didn't the producers and directors know they were awful?' I answered that question: 'No, you don't know.' I still think we folded the makings of a good show...
Although the show began previews in New York on April 26, opening night was postponed from May 3 to May 24 to, at last notice, May 31. Meehan has been changing the script daily, and the actors must constantly learn new lines, lyrics and blocking. "I'd write a scene in the morning, they'd rehearse it in the afternoon and do it at night," says Meehan, who has been working about 18 hours a day. The cast has yet to perform the same version twice. "Some nights we get it, other nights we don't," says...