Word: high-class
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...traders. What kind of security, for example, could replace the 30-year Treasury bond as the bellwether of bond trading and as a particular magnet for foreigners who accumulate dollars in trade with the U.S. and want to invest the bucks in something both high-yielding and safe? "This is my definition of a high-class problem," Summers wryly remarked. But no one at the meeting expected nearly every penny of budget surpluses to be used to pay off debt...
...into a head-on confrontation with Islamic parties. "Megawati's followers were talking about revolution, while some of Habibie's [Muslim] followers were talking about a jihad," says Dewi Fortuna Anwar, a senior adviser to Habibie. A compromise had to be found, and Wahid was its vehicle. "He plays high-class politics beautifully--with both friends and foes," says Ahmad Suhelmi, lecturer in politics at the University of Indonesia. Wahid's first task will be to reconvert Megawati from a foe back into a friend...
...oddly melancholy study in relationships, puts three couples on stage, accompanied by Schumann's Five Pieces in Folk Style, and shows them not getting along. Sometimes they grumble, sometimes they quarrel--and every once in a while they waltz, gently and sadly. Performed in New York City by a high-class cast, including Morris, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Argument shows that the erstwhile bad boy of modern dance just keeps getting better...
...With its prominent placement on the corner of JFK Street and Memorial Drive, Eliot House was long known as home to Harvard's elite. Randomization has muted--but not killed--the House's high-class style...
...brand of jazz guitar learned from his father Bucky, a veteran of the Big Band era. On Contrasts, dad and son team up for a dapper program of seven-string-guitar duets (the added bass strings make for an orchestral richness of texture). The bill of fare ranges from high-class standards like The Bad and the Beautiful to such sophisticated novelties as Joe Mooney's Phantasmagoria; the playing is crisp, witty and swings like...