Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some British theorists think that the Russians intend the new ships to serve an anticipated boom in East-West trade. The most popular explanation for the shipbuilding surge, though, reflects cold-war logic. The Soviets want the hard currency that their shipping industry can earn-especially U.S. dollars and West German marks-and the prestige that can come from showing the red flag around the world. Adds Karl-Heinz Sager, deputy chairman of Hamburg's Hapag-Lloyd shippers: "The Russians are also learning a great deal about the flows of trade and kinds of goods. That kind of information...
...warts, defects and idiosyncrasies." He has also tried to allay fears that a mass layoff of faculty is planned. After defending himself at the faculty meeting during which the no-confidence vote was taken, he asserted, "We have to have a tight ship, but we certainly don't intend to make any cuts at the expense of academic quality." Next week the trustees must decide whether Silber will stay at the helm or whether yet another long search must begin...
...during all of 1976 and unemployment to drop below 7% by year's end. Earlier, official forecasts had anticipated a 6.2% G.N.P. increase and a year-end unemployment rate of 7% to 7.5% (the jobless rate had already dropped to 7.5% last month). Though the Administration does not intend to give its new predictions an official stamp, it is making no secret of its delight. Says Secretary of the Treasury William Simon: "This economy is so good there is almost nothing we could do to screw it up before the end of the year...
...directly on the stage after graduation. Explains Seltzer: "I am not interested in increasing the number of unemployed actors. I believe that a study of theater is the best way to expand minds and sharpen emotions." Indeed only a small percentage of the 200 students enrolled in program courses intend to become professional actors. Says Seltzer: "We're building creative audiences...
...easy matter. For one thing, Rupert is constantly attended by a delectable nurse, Miss Deaton (Pamela Lewis), to whose charms he seems immune but to whose weird logic he succumbs. No suicide till the plumber comes to fix the hot water, she tells him. But he doesn't intend to scald himself to death, he argues. Non sequitur follows non sequitur. A trio of international jewel thieves arrives, but they also do quick-change sequences as Indian priests, complete with cobra and waxwork replicas of Captain Blood, Buffalo Bill and Marie Antoinette. As may be guessed, a good deal...