Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PROBLEMS of imbalance were troublesome in Ravel, they were considerably more serious in the performance of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony which ended the program. The work offers a rare chance to hear the mature Beethoven in a congenial mood, and has a great deal of intrinsic charm; the composer showed good taste in preferring it to the more popular Seventh. But despite the clean and robust tone of the strings and some fine lyrical playing from the woodwinds, problems of balance so marred the performance that it can neither be called satisfying, nor even very charming. The overassertive brass, despite...
...Harvard to announce that he was available, Brustein offered to fill a post that had to be filled by the end of this academic year. His appointment would save the administration from the complicated problems of conducting a lengthy, affirmative-action search. He would bring with him a great deal of practical experience. He would also bring with him that essential Harvard commodity: prestige. For Harvard to capture Brustein directly from Yale would be a major coup...
...very interested. All were put off by the generally low quality of Chinese crude, the high cost of Pacific shipping and the glut of Alaskan oil on the West Coast. Still, Peking wanted the hard dollars that an oil sale would bring, and the terms of the Coastal States deal were made more attractive than the previous contracts offered to the other companies. The price is believed to be far enough below OPEC levels to offset higher shipping costs. In addition, Coastal States was given a chance to buy some of China's limited production of low-sulfur, higher-quality...
...deal is very small by oil standards: 3.6 million bbl. will barely supply a fifth of one day's consumption in the U.S. Still, Peking's willingness to make a pact with Coastal States provides fresh hopes for other American oil companies that would like China's reserves...
...products of Australia's film community, probably the world's fastest-growing (75 features in the past eight years), and the work of a relatively youthful group of Australian film makers who are breathing new life into a once nearly moribund movie industry. Beyond that, most of these films deal in the search for roots that they obviously hope will sustain their new creative venturings?and perhaps make up for the general neglect of their nation's aesthetically usable past...