Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single pension plan throughout his work life will always be better off than his fellow worker who changes jobs." Noting that the bill allows employers to choose the vesting plan that costs the least and therefore provides the least protection to the employee, Ohio State Law Professor Merton C. Bernstein calls the measure "a grave disappointment" and worries that its passage will destroy the impetus for pension reform in the future. He has a point: the present bill was eight years in the drafting, under intense lobbying pressure all the while. Still, the act should go far toward assuring many...
...kicked around for a decade as an underemployed nightclub crooner and vaudevillian before winning critical notice as a smooth, sensitive operatic lead in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande in 1948, sang the title roles in Tales of Hoffmann and the original production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide, and headlined as the padre in Man of La Mancha; of a heart attack; in his studio in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...
...Serge Koussevitzky Centennial Day at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., and the Boston Symphony Orchestra staged a celebration in honor of its late great conductor. Participants included Koussevitzky's most famous pupil, Leonard Bernstein, 55, who on doctors' orders conducted only two programs. Just three weeks before Lenny had been hospitalized in Bridgeport, Conn., suffering from a shortness of breath; no diagnosis of his illness has been made public. One music lover who stopped by at Tanglewood to give him a big hug: Joan Kennedy, recently returned from a rest and therapy session at Connecticut's Silver Hill...
...main actors in this part of the Watergate drama form a remarkable profile of America. There is Frank Wills, the black guard who found the tape on the lock of a Watergate building door and called the police. Reporters Bob Woodward, an Ivy Leaguer, and Carl Bernstein, a dropout from the University of Maryland, enlarged that slender thread into the picture of corruption. Judge John Sirica, the Italian American and old welterweight, applied common sense and created a new sense of justice. Senator Sam Ervin, with a little help from St. Paul and Shakespeare, provided the best civics lesson...
...President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward...