Word: elliott
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...bishops' paper is a direct attack on the proinvestment policies of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Catholic. Trudeau has argued that Canada must stress profits, wage restraints, investment and productivity. Challenging those priorities, the commission condemns "the renewed emphasis on the 'survival of the fittest' as the supreme law of economics" and asks for controls on profits, soak-the-rich taxation, a bigger role for labor unions and government programs to create jobs...
...Maria von Trapp spirit her brood out of Hitler's Austria, or Don Corleone take his cold-dish revenge. E.T. gives its viewers more, from less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned a dream world from the Formica-and-vinyl tatters of the American dream...
...Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this disc surprisingly shows. Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work...
...When Ray Elliott, 50, and his wife Helen, 56, came to Guatemala in 1953, Protestants were a scorned and despised minority. After arriving in the remote village of Nebaj, nestled in a steep valley 165 miles northwest of Guatemala City, the Elliotts learned that a priest was warning the people that Protestants were devils and kidnapers who should be refused all goods and supplies. To this day, Helen Elliott has trouble acknowledging Catholics as fellow Christians...
Following the example of thousands of Americans, Elliott went north. Beginning in January, however, such pilgrimages will no longer be necessary. The Food and Drug Administration has approved chymopapain for use in the U.S. Says Orthopedist Eugene Nordby, chairman of a joint committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons: "The injections could revolutionize treatment of herniated discs...