Word: herman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coors has geared up to establish national distribution by building a second brewery near Elkton, Va., but slow sales have forced the plans to be shelved for the time being. More immediately, the brewer has begun advertising heavily, and is in the process of adding a new superpremium brand, Herman Joseph's 1868. Insists Company President Joseph Coors: "We will fight tooth and nail to improve our market, and we're going to survive...
...Greens in West Germany have helped create a regulatory atmosphere that has been hostile to industrial growth. In the U.S. particularly, an extremely low personal savings rate (5.7% of take-home pay vs. 18.7% in Japan) has reduced the potential pool of funds available for investment. Says Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute, a New York-based research group: "People are really not willing to sacrifice for economic growth any more...
...journal of the interwar period, and married a fellow staff member, the independent-minded Sophia Wittenberg of Brooklyn. (Sixty years later, he still offers sonnets to her.) Mumford took up the study of cities in earnest after a stint at a municipal job in Pittsburgh. A 1929 book on Herman Melville established him as a literary critic, and his 1938 The Culture of Cities made him a national celebrity...
...Says Herman W Liebert librarian emeritus of Yale's Binecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. "He [Bond] inherited a wonderful resource and had a very, very difficult act to follow, but he has lived up to the challenge[Houghton] is one of the finest collections in the world because ofWilliam Bond...
Lack of focus is also the main criticism that can be made of the festival built by Herman, who also doubles as the energetic, ebullient head of the Miami Opera. He had several critical successes, but he tried to do too much and concentrated his efforts too little. Miamians were puzzled and overwhelmed, and out-of-state tourists, who might have found in the festival an excuse for a vacation in February or March, simply yawned from afar. After 21 premieres, more than 200 performances and the possible loss of $700,000, the festival had to acknowledge the force...