Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limited press reports which had marked Alkali Canyon, Petrolandia was fully described in Solider, the journal of the US armed forces. According to USN&WR the "Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division...spearhead of any such (Middle East) operation...regularly practices parachute drops over the desert around For Bliss, Texas, and annually trains for long distance operations with troop, drops in Greece, Turkey, and South Korea...
...Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Then last year he made the Bristol (Conn.) Red Sox, of the Eastern League, Double A ball, a prayer away from the Pawtucket Red Sox which is in turn a prayer away from Boston and Fenway and eternal bliss...
Perhaps the truest measure of the dilemma is that one can so readily sympathize with both sides. The Met, headed for another $9 or $10 million deficit this year, is in its worst financial trouble ever. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and president of the Met board from 1956 to 1967, was chosen as executive director to lead the company out of that morass. He has made it clear that his way will involve considerable retrenchment...
...cannot, of course, cut his work force by 10% or more, as New York City has done. A major orchestra operates at full strength or not at all. Bliss's latest proposal called for seven weeks' less work and a two-year contract offering no raise in salary the first year and a 5% increase the second year. With that offer, Local 802 began thinking strike...
...When Bliss says, "Frankly, we don't have enough to offer the union members what they feel is essential," he is understating the case. In fact, the musicians do not dispute him. Both sides agree that outside help is the only true, long-range solution to the Met's problems. A six-month New York repertory season with four or five new productions presents vast problems. But most of the Met's ills are not that different from those of other opera houses-just bigger. The Met spends more per year ($3.8 million) on the maintenance...