Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, the Administration tried to make it clear that it was serious. In background sessions with newsmen, Administration spokesmen outlined a three-pronged program. First, they said, the Federal Reserve Board would be taking steps, in concert with other central banks, to strengthen the greenback, and had already been moving "more actively" in buying dollars to prop up their price. Second, the Administration would step up efforts to get Congress to pass Carter's energy program, which would reduce oil imports and thus stem the drain of dollars out of the U.S. Indeed, Carter personally lobbied House members...
...rent at $2 an hour. There are waiting lines at her concession on weekends and on Tuesday nights, when city roller fans join in "Nightskates," a two-hour jaunt through the park. Last week they pirouetted and coasted to music from the New York Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact beginning to roll, and one skate manufacturer has come out with a "jogger" model-a blue running shoe with yellow racing stripes mounted on wheels. After...
...next to arrive are Richard and his wife, Clarisse, pulling up their Cadillac for a meal. Richard is cool, successful and wealthy, everything Red Ryder wishes he were and is not. Clarisse is a concert violinist with an $11,000 violin which Richard has bought for her, more to ensure her dependence on him than to show his love. At first, she is little more than an extension of Richard, he gets her everything he thinks she wants without listening to a word from...
...Concert: Summer School Chorus, conducted by Robert P. Porco. 8:30 p.m., Sanders Theater. Free...
...artificial stimulation of any kind required, either. Using drugs to get up for a concert is for Springsteen "like coming onstage on crutches." He will, however, listen to some good music before a show (Buddy Holly is a current favorite). "It's like an actor watching Brando in Waterfront before he does a scene," Springsteen says. "It just gives you a sense of what the possibilities are, where you can take them, and a sense there's a lot to live...