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Even the authoritative and generally pro-NASA trade journal Aviation Week & Space Technology was critical. While praising the "dedication, high level of effort and in many cases personal sacrifice" of NASA personnel, it charged that "undercurrents reveal a hidebound space agency fraught with lax management oversight, intramural turf battles between headquarters and key field centers and a tendency toward compartmentalized bureaucratic thinking that, in the aftermath of the accident, has generated self-serving responses...
Today the inevitable cries of alarm from Main Line Philadelphians have generally subsided. The orchestra has won widespread praise for transforming itself from a hidebound institution into a more flexible, even innovative ensemble. Still, some listeners ask: At what price? Along with its former way of playing, has the orchestra also shed its soul? The musicians say no. In fact, they sing their conductor's praises so enthusiastically that they are referred to in musical circles, only half jokingly, as "Muti's Moonies." "Muti has been touched by God," says Concertmaster Norman Carol, who has held the post...
...organization, claiming it misrepresented the group's position. In Santa Cruz the unrepentant vets filed a court petition for reinstatement. Post 5888, which has grown to 112 members as a result of the controversy, says it wants to stay in the V.F.W. to provide some fresh thinking for hidebound older members. "The organization is going to be a dead dinosaur," said Anderson, "unless there are some creative new ideas...
...intend to tolerate continued discrimination borne of eastbound winds and hidebound bureaucrats," declared Richard Thornburgh, the Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, in 1980. Thornburgh was referring to his demand that the federal Environmental Protection Agency stop other states from befouling Pennsylvania's air in violation of the 1970 Clean Air Act. New York and Maine joined Pennsylvania in petitioning the EPA to order seven states, mostly in the Midwest, to reduce sulfur-dioxide emissions that are carried eastward by prevailing winds and fall in the form of acid rain...
...bottom fell out. Revenues plunged 10.2%. Not only was music caught in the general economic clinch; there was a feeling that everything had peaked, maybe even played itself out. Punk and new wave had created much press excitement, but never really broke through to a wide audience. Radio was hidebound by tightly formatted playlists: same sounds, same rhythms, in the same familiar rotations. Radio was the time-honored conduit to keep the music flowing, but it was becoming antiquated...