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...assiduously exploring the nooks and crannies of the composer's output in search of further repertory-the oratorio La Betulia Liberata, for example, or the opera Mitridate, Re di Ponto, both written when Mozart was an adolescent. In addition, music of the classical period has become the frontier of performance scholarship; original-instrument versions of Mozart are now appearing, led by the Academy of Ancient Music's formidable project of recording all the Mozart symphonies in the way they might have been performed...
...important question of who masterminded and bankrolled the operations, the government claimed that ten days before the raid an extreme right-wing paymaster-not further identified -offered each terrorist 5 million pesetas (about $55,000) at a dinner in Perpignan, France, just across the frontier. But that did not account for the fact that the carpenter's shop had been rented five weeks before by a member of the gang...
...more controversial proposal would permit banks and thrift institutions to do business in more than one state. The U.S. has more banks (14,500) than all the rest of the world combined. The tradition of many small, local banks goes back to frontier days, when a bank was one of the pillars of a new community. Bankers say, though, that regulations limiting them to one state are now an anachronism...
Despite the risks, real or imagined, extensive or miniscule, Eckstein and others believe that a University that allows its professors to consult will ultimately profit. "Suppose Harvard took a different approach and didn't allow any research," he says. You would not have people on the frontier of the sciences." Griliches concurs, noting. "You could say, 'Too bad, you have to stay home.' But would you be better replacing people in high demand by people without opportunity...
...last bit of information came from her section leader in her primate course. "It's evidently the last, great frontier for primates," says Lezberg. "He called it 'monkey heaven...