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American companies with a stake in the region still have enthusiastic hopes for the Reagan plan. Says Thomas Johnson of the American Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala: "It's marvelous. It's perfect. It's just what we needed." U.S. firms in the country include Texaco, General Telephone & Electronics, Rayovac and Du Pont...
...folding chairs are arranged for the tenants, landlords, and attorneys who are scheduled to appear. At any given time on a Wednesday night those chairs are nearly full because the board almost always falls significantly behind schedule. Due to the annoying waiting period in the unusally stuffy concrete chamber where the final stage of the rent control hearing process is held, and the often months-long wait that preceded it, landlords' and tenants' tempers sometimes grow short by the time they face the board members. To end a repetitious argument or enforce quiet among the audience. Chairman Acheson Callaghan picks...
...larger viola, with which he felt "a sense of oneness that I never felt when playing the violin." A world-touring solo recitalist, he settled in the U.S. in 1937 and became first viola of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. Later known for his performances of chamber music, he also worked with contemporary composers, commissioning and playing the first performance of the Bartók Viola Concerto...
...Communist Party resolution of 1948 for "formalistic distortions and antidemocratic tendencies," Shostakovich wrote two of his next three symphonies about the Russian Revolution. But these works were for official consumption; spiritually, Shostakovich went underground to express his most personal thoughts-to the more intimate, rarefied world of chamber music. Indeed, in the Eighth Quartet (1960), he wrote an autobiography in sound, quoting from his own music: at the climax of the fourth movement, the cello wistfully recalls a melody from Lady Macbeth...
...case, there is no guarantee that an amendment would actually lead to balanced budgets. The Senate version, for example, would permit deficit spending if 60% of the members of each chamber of Congress voted for it. Besides that, revenues and expenditures are notoriously difficult to estimate, and no one has figured out what the legal situation would be if Congress, by accident or design, voted a set of figures that looked plausible but proved wrong. An amendment, predicts Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause, a public interest lobby, "is going to lead to all kinds of games, like two sets...