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...survey says it is just a backdrop to family life...
Against that backdrop, board members offered 1983 growth forecasts ranging from merely modest to barely visible for the Community's four leading economic powers...
...sponsorship than most companies. Its annual budget for such promotions runs to several million dollars, spent on such events as the ten-day New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival last spring, which featured 3,000 musicians, 300 music groups and nine stages, each with a Schlitz [ogo as a backdrop. Not so incidentally, 400,000 cups of Schlitz were sold. This year Schlitz foamed beyond local events and plunged into national rock-music promotions, including Fleetwood Mac's 30-city tour and the Who's performance in 40 places. Those cost Schlitz $1 million to $2 million each...
...backdrop against which the political drama is being played out is Italy's formidable economic crisis, which all parties agree is about to come to a head. It blends uncontrolled government spending with rising inflation and high unemployment. Complimenting other E.C. ministers on the steps their nations had taken to stabilize their economies, outgoing Treasury Minister Beniamino Andreatta deplored Italy's official inertia: "I believe our people also have that same courage [to favor stabilization], but our politicians, at least some of them, do not know how to read their feelings." It may take more courage than...
...Angeles is to Mudd what Paterson, N.J. was to William Carlos Williams his sole source of inspiration, the backdrop against which time passes and the measure of change. Mudd even defines his own art by describing his hometown--he writes that poetry is a rambling jazz, spread out as lights are over the freeways...