Word: budd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pension burden has become heaviest in the older capital-intensive industries such as steel, rubber and farm equipment, often because tough unions have increasingly asked for fringe benefits instead of simple wage hikes. Among other firms carrying particularly weighty pension loads are Uniroyal, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and the Budd Co. A great many other firms have not taken care to set sufficient money aside to pay fully for promised benefits. A recent amendment to the Financial Accounting Standards Board rule instructed accountants to include all such costs in company annual reports...
Pullman, once the proudest name in the U.S. rail car industry, announced in March that it was quitting the passenger field altogether. Only three months later the New York City Transit Authority sued Pullman for having delivered at least 235 subway cars that had serious structural flaws. Budd now remains the only U.S. maker of rail cars and trolleys. But because of the high price of its equipment, it is being beaten out by foreign competitors San Diego is buying trolleys for its 16-mile line to the Mexican border, on which construction will begin later this year, from...
...Graham has seldom suffered from the usual suspicions of Gantryism and fraud. He has always possessed a bright, generous and translucent character that reminds Frady of Melville's Billy Budd. The child of hard-working North Carolina farm people, Billy grew up so alarm ingly full of energy that his parents once took him to a doctor to see if he was nor mal. He was: an intense, passionate normality has been one of the reasons for his astonishing success. As an adolescent, he went dusting wildly over North Carolina back roads in his father's Plymouth, necked...
Both Dexter and Levine have performed erratically. Dexter's record with modern opera is extraordinary--his Dialogues of the Carmelites and Billy Budd exemplify how best to present modern operas with narrow appeal. But his productions of standards from the nineteenth century repertory, like his curious Rigoletto, have infuriated audiences. Levine's conducting has gained undeserved acclaim in the press. It's forceful, direct, and intractably unsubtle; Levine takes scores and homogenizes them. Furthermore, at a callow 35 he is attempting to conduct everything in the repertory from Mozart to Berg and Weill...
...There's no reason why the directory can't be provided in time for us to make full use of it," Jordan C. Budd '82, said yesterday...