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While Whitehead says investigations of large scale outlets may prove successful, prosecuting independent craftsmen who make their own paraphernalia and sell it to friends and neighbors will be far more difficult. The law seems aimed at reducing large scale sales of equipment used to in gest drugs, especially sales to minors...
...erratic, often jarring orchestral performance, under Frederick Q. Freyer's direction, communicates Weill's epic music with clarity and vigor. Freyer's lyrical arrangement faithfully retains the social gest of the original. Occasionally, he loses control of his players' enthusiasm, and the music overwhelms the singers. Yet the vitality of his conducting and exuberance of the music itself, leaping across the stage to strike the audience's nervous system, adds integrity to the production where the set failed...
Seven games and seven wins later, the Crimson was ready to avenge a 1979 loss to Princeton. Sadly, the Tigers got the gest of the stickmen, ruining their chances to sole claim of the Ivy Crown; Harvard eventually shared it with Cornell...
...even these losses would pale beside a far less publicized jolt that the insurance group is suffering. It involves the labyrinthine world of computer leasing, a honey-tongued Texas hustler, the big gest and most prestigious U.S. banks and IBM. As a result of many forces, the Lloyd's insurance group faces the biggest loss in its 291-year history - up to $225 million, vs. the present record of $100 million paid to cover damages from Hurricane Betsy...
...rise in investment. Or, to put it another way, how to remove obstacles that the tax code puts in the way of investment. As Robert Anderson, president of Rockwell International, explained: "If I had a partner who put up all the money, took all the risks, did the big gest part of the work and gave me half the profits [a reference to the 48% corporate tax], I would be a hell of a lot more encouraging to that partner than I think the Government has been to business during the past 20 years...