Word: cuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until now. At the age of 44, Robertson has shaken the dust off and made his first solo album. Two Band colleagues show up on two cuts for the sake of old times. There are also hefty contributions from U2, Peter Gabriel and the BoDeans, and stylistic echoes as diverse as Tom Waits and David Byrne. But Robbie Robertson is unmistakably his work. He says it best himself on the last cut, Testimony: "Bear witness, I'm wailing like the wind/ Come bear witness, the half-breed rides again." So step right up and welcome him home...
...offering consumers a big break. The telephone giant proposed to slash its long-distance rates by an average of 3.6%. As good as it sounds, though, the move will not ultimately make much of a dent in home phone bills. AT&T said it would carry out the rate cut only if it receives reductions in the "access charges" it pays regional phone companies. These fees give AT&T the right to connect its long-distance lines to local phone systems...
...really want to avoid the rush, then leave on Thursday morning, or cut a class and leave early on Tuesday," said Paula Musto, a spokesman for Eastern Airlines...
Much of the problem, however, is imbedded in the structure of the University. With its relatively small faculty, abundance of large lecture courses and chronic shortage of qualified section leaders, it is naive to think that simple solutions could cut to the core of the problem...
Lyndon Johnson knew how to compromise better than anyone. Clifford, L.B.J.'s Secretary of Defense, remembers March 31, 1968, when Johnson tried to cut his last and biggest deal with Washington. He went on the air to "speak to you of peace" not war. It was the end of escalation in Viet Nam. Washington, with its peace marchers, Senate harangues, angry poets, editorial cartoons and leaky colonels, had stopped him. He left for the ranch because he knew enough to know he had to yield...