Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...authors of a proposed book on the '60s will conduct a census in downtown Boston on Oct. 19 to find out what people think happened during that decade...
Scientists involved in the field are now raising questions about the surprising speed with which the group completed its research, in light of the strict guidelines they must follow. A group at Harvard is taking considerably longer to conduct similar experiments...
Earlier this year, twelve major U.S. companies agreed to end segregation and promote fair employment practices in their South African plants. Last week the European Community agreed to a new code of conduct for European subsidiaries in South Africa. Although nonbinding, the code forbids wage discrepancies between races and allows blacks to join trade unions and join in collective bargaining. If the rules are observed, the economic impact on South Africa could be dramatic, although there is a danger that companies may simply raise the salaries of some black workers while abolishing the jobs of others...
...when he was hired to co-direct the New York Philharmonic with Dmitri Mitropoulos. The flamboyant Stokowski, whose glamorous life was already shrouded in mystery, melted even further away from the public eye at that point, as his "permanent" associations with first-rank orchestras died and offers to guest conduct diminished. Quite naturally, Stokowski's sudden death last week elicited a mixed bag of memories of the figure so dynamic and controversial that the verb "to Stokowski-ize" nearly became part of our language...
Among the offended was one critic from the Cleveland Leader, who wrote about Stokowski in 1912 when he was leaving the Cincinnati Orchestra to conduct in Philadelphia...