Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone and his grandmother will probably be there, but this is the weekend of the Beethoven Festival at Tanglewood, and it shouldn't be missed. Eugene Ormandy will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in five of Beethoven's nine dramatic symphonies, and the cycle will be nearly completed on Sunday afternoon when the Boston Symphony performs two more. If you've been dying to get out to Tanglewood but lacked the means, you'll be in luck Sunday--the Cambridge YMCA is sponsoring a bus that will leave in the morning, drop you at the festival doorstep, and depart right after...
...wanted to play it that way, conveying the image of just plain Jerry, hard at work and determined. Seated at his desk in the Oval Office, backed by four campaign aides, he read a brief, low-key statement in a firm, confident voice. Said the President: "I intend to conduct an open and aboveboard campaign"-a pledge that would have seemed superfluous in any but a post-Nixon period...
...clash with Congress over the conduct of foreign policy, the Ford Administration has achieved one tentative advance and suffered one major setback...
Mending Fences. All U.S. combat aircraft have been removed from the island, and American troops will be reduced from 4,400 to 2,800 by early fall, but the U.S. continues to conduct joint contingency-planning exercises with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense. Such exercises indicate that any U.S. move to establish formal relations with China this year will be made only if Washington can retain its ties with Taiwan. Peking will have to agree that "normalization and the solution of the Taiwan problem are not simultaneous," say U.S. officials...
...foil national economic objectives by shifting their operations around from nation to nation. For example, multinationals poured considerable money into Germany, and hurt that country's efforts to battle inflation by holding down the money supply. Many executives of multinational corporations would welcome an international code of conduct. Capitalist countries would help their economies operate more smoothly if they agreed to treaties harmonizing the tax, pollution and accounting standards that multinational corporations must meet...