Word: cropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Commusicals did fit the stolid stereotype--Mikhail and Judit shouting, "Let's harvest the beet crop right here!"--but many have an enduring buoyancy. Grigori Alexandrov's pioneering The Jolly Fellows (1934) percolates with jaunty jazz, Cubist compositions and a Dietrichish blond in a party hat. The amazing Midnight Revue (G.D.R., 1962) is a comically cynical parable about the difficulty of making a musical when your producer is not Arthur Freed but a pack of philistine bureaucrats. We can't approve your film, the apparatchiks sing...
...rocket science is predictable, and there aren't other rocket companies waiting to shoot yours out of the sky, as is happening to the discounters. Of all the newer crop of start-ups (those in business since the early 1990s), one of the few winners is Reno Air Inc., which posted a net profit of $2 million last year. The five sizable publicly traded discount airlines lost a combined $58 million in the first quarter of 1997, while most big carriers enjoyed sky-high profits. "You have to find a niche and stay with it," says Bob Reding, Reno...
...assume, though, that Big Tobacco thinks business will be better, or it wouldn't have come this far. Profit margins on cigarettes are now about 34%. Last year Philip Morris had an operating profit of $4.2 billion on domestic cigarette sales of $12.5 billion. Unquestionably, tobacco is a cash crop that can cover the settlement tab and still reward stockholders. And with advertising and legal outlays likely to be scaled back, the industry can recover some of its costs immediately...
Perhaps the sportswriting trend is cyclical, and with every new crop an extra 1,600 possible recruits set foot in Cambridge. But glance through this commencement issue of the Crimson and you will see the same names over and over again--what does this mean for the future of sportswriting at Harvard? Or to take the issue to its logical conclusion--what will the future bring for the image of Harvard as the ideal athletic/academic balance...
This year's bumper crop netted a 40 to 45 percent acceptance rate, however...