Word: demands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sets, and pretty stage pictures, however, do not save this play. Consistently wooden acting cancels out all flourishes of technical competence. Lillian Hellman's play concerns two schoolteachers whose lives are ruined when a spoiled and rebellious pupil accuses them of lesbianism. The highly emotional confrontations throughout the play demand good acting, and it just isn't there. But if you want to see for yourself, it's playing at the Loeb Mainstage, tonight, tomorrow and Sat. Tickets at the Loeb box office...
Francis J. Connolly's insinuation ("A new York State of Mind". Oct. 20) that Robert Moses profited financially from the development of central Long Island is so astonishingly far from the truth as to demand comment...
...uncertainty about what changes such cuts would bring. Government officials warn loudly that tax slashing would mean reductions in police protection and public schooling, closed libraries and potholed streets. But most Americans apparently don't believe them. They think high taxes are a result not of the public demand for services but mainly of the relentless growth of the bureaucracy. Many believe taxes can easily be cut as much as 33%. How? They think the most obvious place to start the cuts is to eliminate government waste. Far from being ready to accept a serious reduction in government services...
...medicine does not seem to be working. Loan demand so far has remained robust. That is one reason the money supply has expanded at an annual rate of 11.3% in the past two months, well ahead of the Reserve's target limit of 6.5%. Nor has the dollar shown any appreciable signs of strengthening. Thus many experts believe that even higher interest rates are on the way, even though Reserve Chairman William Miller has said that borrowing costs are at or near their peaks. Henry Kaufman, a top money analyst at Salomon Brothers, believes the prime rate could...
...upset. We had a written agreement that our name would not be used in the ad." Wine merchants' reactions are mixed; though some wine merchants believe Taylor's claims for its California wines are overblown, quite a few are increasing their orders because the ads are boosting demand...