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Handel: Water Music (Erato). This buoyant, vital performance on original instruments by John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists is simply the best available...
...council demonstrated sensitivity towards what is becoming a widely accepted view. Harvard's funded and centralized student government must effect legitimate, tangible accomplishments this year to secure campus support which is now buoyant but tenuous. To this end, council members--and particularly Council Chairman Michael G. Colantuono '83--moved debate on the agenda's more picayune items at a clipped pace. Voting on necessary procedural matters, including the selection of delegates to various committees and the planning of the council's office, the group set a healthy precedent for itself by deliberating these inconsequential issues in an unhesitating but thorough...
Everywhere one looked at the National Cable Television Association (N.C.T.A.) convention in Las Vegas last May, people were buoyant about their prospects in a business whose time apparently had come. Last week, however, cable's optimists got a jolt: communications giant CBS (1981 revenues: $4.1 billion) announced that it would shut down its critically praised but loss-plagued cultural service within 90 days. According to estimates by industry sources, the service had lost $30 million in less than a year. A dispirited Thomas F. Leahy, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group, blamed the recession, and added...
...postwar West German Wirtschaftswunder. When the giant company began to rebuild in the late 1940s, it found that the destruction of battle and the loss of property in East Germany had wiped out more than 90% of its factories. But a combination of hard work and a buoyant economy helped AEG-Telefunken to restore itself and become the second largest electronics manufacturer in West Germany after Siemens. In 1981, it employed 120,000 workers worldwide and had sales of $6.6 billion...
There were other signs that life was getting back to less than buoyant normality in Britain. Workers for the National Health Service called a one-day nationwide strike last week. The London underground was crippled as strikers closed down the entire system. And this week railway workers are planning a walkout that could go on for weeks...