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...solved. What they still have not agreed on is the means to solve them. To bring about meaningful change in most of these areas would require overhauling the way the world does business -- from the laws that control international trade to the financial institutions that direct the ebb and flow of capital. That is a task that the negotiators have barely even begun...
...that Coleman is the last American to write good theater songs -- not while Charles Strouse, Jerry Herman and Kander and Ebb are still banging them out. He just happens to be the latest American to have had two first-run hits playing on Broadway at the same time (City of Angels and The Will Rogers Follies) since the glory days of Rodgers and Hammerstein, when America ruled the boards, and probably the last active one (unless Burton Lane and Jule Styne have something up their sleeves) to write the classic American jazz song that the young singers are just...
Historically, there has been an "ebb and flow" in relations between the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, according to Charles P. Slichter '45, the Corporation's senior fellow...
...family is in a lot of pain. They don't trust each other. Sam has had an affair whose wounds -- his wife's, his child's, his own -- he's trying to lick and live down. Going in, he's guilty, poor guy. Leigh is watching life ebb away as she nears middle age; things are bad, and they're going to get worse. And Danny despises them both. She needs to break out from them, no matter what danger she might break into. They all need a trauma that will either bind them together or completely tear them apart...
Many political analysts now think Major might call a general election in June before the glow of victory in the gulf is dimmed by Britain's recession. Inflation is coming down, and as price increases ebb, Major is reducing interest rates; last week's budget called for a further 2-point cut, to 13%. Businessmen, however, are unsure whether that is enough to produce an expected upswing by fall. Even if it does, unemployment, at a two-year high of 7% of the labor force, is expected to keep rising, perhaps to as much...