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Because continuing the trial would have interfered with the vacation plans of the judge and some jurors. Judge Fraiman, who had once before ended a trial rather than forgo a holiday, this time offered to postpone his plans, but he did not order the jury to do so; instead, he declared a mistrial...
...music director at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (where most of his Musica Sacra singers also perform) and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a 160-voice amateur chorus. And he is planning another Basically Bach festival for next year. All of this has forced him to forgo his weekly summer baseball games and subside to the status of a merely passionate fan. His team? "The Yankees-I guess because they're winners." Coming from a man with Westenburg's recent record, that figures...
Certainly the nation would be well served if both President and Congress accept the political risks involved in establishing a strong energy policy. But there are huge sums of money at stake, the lobbying will be fierce and the will of Americans to forgo some of their energy-consuming comforts has yet to be demonstrated. On the other hand, if the leaders of Egypt and Israel, with Jimmy Carter's help, can try to put all those years of warfare behind them, perhaps the country, with the President's help, can reach agreement on how to overcome...
...annual rate of 11.4%. Leading the price parade was food, up at an 18.2% rate. Contends David Grove, a former IBM vice president who heads his own economic consulting firm: " To get inflation under control, everyone has to sacrifice. There has to be a willingness by the public to forgo tax relief, tolerate tighter money, and not put tremendous pressure on the Government to step up spending for pet programs." Adds Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank: "The key question is, what happens when unemployment starts moving up to 7% or 7.5%? Will the Administration...
...theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed to other Starr stockholders and to forgo some payments Starr owed him. The total cost to Buckley could reach $1.4 million, which is unusually stiff for an SEC case. Buckley was also barred from serving as an officer or director of any pubicly owned company for five years...